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How lame is it that Microsoft chose “Party like a rock star” as the theme of their Webmaster World party this year?
Shoemoney (Jeremy Shoemaker) ran a contest he called, “Party like a rock star” paying the airfare, hotel bill, conference admission, and %400 cash for one lucky winner, and he got quite a few entries, quite a bit of blog buzz, and created a pretty good thing, in my opinion. (Yesterday he announced his winner, which was Laura Martin)
Just now via e-mail I got an invitation (exclusive, no doubt 😉 to the Microsoft Ad Center party, and they are calling it “Party like a Rock Star” also.
I don’t think that takes away anything from Shoe’s contest, but really, are they so far out of the loop that they didn’t know this contest was going on?
I suppose Microsoft can do whatever they want, just like Google does, but I think it shows somewhat of an “unawareness” about the community of attendees at the conference. I won’t hold it against them though, and I’ll be there anyway, partying like a (aging) rockstar…
