Forty Thousand Blog Comments In Hope For Winning A Wii
After over forty thousand blog comments, some motherly (Mormon) prayer and careful selection of five lucky numbers between one and 42,232, five blog followers have new Nintendo Wii’s in their homes. Well-known blogger of dooce.com and past SXSW Interactive speaker, Heather B. Armstrong, held a contest on her blog comment section to giveaway five Wii systems after holding a Wii Fit party at her home. Armstrong recalls her “job was to gather up ten of my friends and prepare them to be humiliated by their Wii Fit age, something determined by your BMI/weight, your age, and some balancing acts that would cause a veteran circus performer to fall over.” Everyone in attendance was surprised their Wii Fit age, determined with a balance board and a game console, was older than they expected. After sharing Wii Fit with her friends, she was given five Wii consoles to give away on her blog with a little help from Mom.