Eyebeam has launched The Contagious Media Showdown. From the website:

Announcing the world’s first Contagious Media Showdown. Do you have what it takes to corral enough traffic to win the cash prizes? Can you make the next Dancing Baby, All Your Base, or Star Wars Kid and ride into the sunset with the bounty? This is your chance to prove you are the best in the West.

It was created by the Contagious Media Group at Eyebeam who are Jonah Peretti (Mr. Contagious Media himself), Cory Arcangel, Ze Frank, Ann Poochareon, Paul Berry and Mike Frumin.

Sounds like lots of fun. I think M.River has some plans but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get anything done for it.

My one fear about taking part is that if a heavyweight like Kottke (perhaps he’s ineligible?) takes part, one link from his site could generate more traffic than the rest of the projects combined. And though the contest is open to all (so that seems perfectly fair for a big blogger to take part), it would be nice to find some weird little meme that really sparks general net interest. That seems like what the organizers are looking for too.

Either way, it’s another great idea from Eyebeam and I’m looking forward to watching the competition. permanent link to this post