Meryl's Notes Blog

Ack! I wrote a wonderfully comedic piece about this… and then it got lost in cyberblog space. OK, maybe it was not all that. Anyway, Bookpool has extended its design a bookmark contest through January 25, 2002. You can check out many of the submitted entries to see what you’re up against. Wow, some are muy impressivo! It’s gonna be tough to vote on one, two or even three winners. Oh ya, what’s the prize??? $3000 US smackeroos! Even 2nd place gets $2000 and 3rd receives $1000! Not bad for designing for a small-sized item that could possibly get printed.

They say we’re gonna vote on the best bookmark. How the heck am I supposed to do that? I propose they do what PDABuzz did with its PDABuzz Desert Island Survival Contest and (using my best Anne Robinson accent) let us vote off the weakest bookmarks and work our way up to the strongest link.

If you’re not up for the design challenge, you can spend some mondo bucks and save 43% on O’Reilly books at Bookpool. Sounds like they bribed me to say this, doesn’t it? Well, they didn’t and I don’t even get anything if you buy a book since they don’t have a Bookpool Associates program in place like Amazon. Just trying to be a nice gal and letting you know about the big sale on O’Reilly books. I recommend books by Jennifer Niederst and Eric Meyers.