The person who correctly guesses the number of unread blog posts in my google reader upon my return and unread email messages in my gmail will win a prize. I have no idea what that prize will be, but it will be awesome.
Rules: Closest guess wins and if there is a tie the extra credit tie breakers will decide. I am the sole decider (like Bush!) of who wins. There may be more than one winner. The correct answer will be the number in my email inbox, not my spam folder, and just my personal and not work email, and unread blog posts I subscribe to, not shared feeds or whatever that nonsense I don't understand is. The contest closes on Monday, February 23, 2009.
Extra credit: Do I check mark all as read or actually read the blog posts? How many emails do I respond to? And super extra credit if you correctly guess whether or not I hear from the job I had 3 interviews for before I left.
P.S. Told you I was filling this blog with junk while I was gone.
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Blog posts – 72
Email – 168
You will read about half the blog posts, respond to about half the emails, and you did hear from the job before you left.
Blog posts – 235
Email – 78
Read the email unless they’re newsletters and sales notices. Scan your feed reader and only read posts by the people you really really like (or good friends that expect you to be up to date on their lives) then mark all as read after you’re done scanning.
615 blog posts.
120 emails.
You will respond to all emails that are from people, which will be about 80%- 96.
You will read the posts from your favorite blogs and then mark all as read.
I’m going to guess that you did NOT hear from the job before you left, only because I don’t remember you twittering about it.
And yes, I did give this a lot of thought. And yes I am a dork!
Well, I had about 300 posts in my reader after a week of being gone, so I’m guessing 300. You’ll read a quarter of them, and mark as read the other 3/4.
You’ll totally hear from at least one of the jobs by the time you’re back.
273 blog postes
539 emails
There is no method to my madd guessing skillz. I just pulled those numbers out of the air. I have no guesses for the extra credit.
841 Blog posts
151 emails
Mark all as read, and mass delete emails unless they are from someone you know well.
Blog posts: 375
emails: 90
You will delete the emails, including the ones that tell you someone left a comment on your blog posts.
You WILL hear back about that job.
Um, I’m thinking you will scan the posts, and only read the ones that jump out at you; you will mark the rest as read.
Blog posts: 157
Emails: 736
reader – 1,245
email – 422
blog posts 450
e-mail 102
Posts 666
e-mail 389
You will have 478 posts in your reader.
email, 504. Maybe it’s just me but I get a ton of spam all the time…plus all of your comments on here if they get emailed to you.
You heard back from the job as you were walking out the door.
You will read about half of the blog posts, and mark the other half as read. You will read about a third of your email.
Hope you’re having a great time!
Well, I know you were checking email for a bit as we were exchanging them for a time. So, I’ll say 429 emails and 679 posts.
You will totally have the job when you return.
You will read 1/3 of your email as most will be junk and 1/4 of the posts as those are the ones you are truly interested in.
332?