Can you make it to the kkomp.com Top 10 with your guest-post? Two people have already done so, one of them is still there (Not any longer, unfortunately.). Can you equal that, or even do better?

At the time of writing, the guest-post from Misca Nicoleta; “Install Windows 7 on your Portable Device and Increase Battery Life” is still in the kkomp.com Top Ten: It’s made it to Number 8 so far, and is currently staying put in the Number 9 slot. (It’s since dropped out of the Top Ten.) The other guest-post, from Kyle Potts; “Linux For Everyone?”, made it to Number 10 on the first day, but has now slipped back to Number 16 when I last checked. These posts will be included in the following mission.

What exactly is the kkomp.com Top 10?

The kkomp.com Top Ten is a selection of the ten most popular posts, according to readership, over the period of the last seven days. It is calculated on page load by complex algorithms, and is displayed in the sidebar on almost every page and post.

Your Briefing: -

For the most part of this year, the Number 1 slot has been occupied by a post called “Computer Can’t See BT Home Hub. – Updated.”; a post that I wrote last year (2008), and which has proved to be by far the most popular post on this blog to date. During July 2009 it was overtaken by a post called “The Vista Black Screen of Death – A Fix.”, but this didn’t last, and within a few days it was back at Number 1.

Recently it was trounced and replaced in the Number 1 slot by “Using Windows Automated System Recovery With No Floppy Drive: Is it Possible?”, “How to Uninstall IE8 in XP”, and again by “The Vista Black Screen of Death: A Fix”. – Despite this it never left the top 4 positions, and has now just found its way back to Number 1 again!

I’m fed up with that situation. – I think it’s time that the long-time chart-topper was deposed once and for all, so that a new and better post can reign supreme. It is with this in mind that I propose a legal coup, in that a fresh and new post will replace it and assume dominance of the kkomp.com Top Ten chart.

Would you believe it?! – About 5 hours before this post is scheduled to publish, an obscure post titled “Weekend Boob Sorted”, which I wrote over a year ago and has recently been linked to in a gamer forum and soared up the charts in the last few days, (Probably due to the picture of the soft upper parts of a woman, posessed of large boobs, inside a Blue-Screen-Of-Death-T-shirt. (This post did a similar act at the end of last year come to think of it.)) has budged “Computer Can’t See BT Home Hub – Updated” off the Number 1 spot after a struggle.

Your mission; should you choose to accept it, is to write a guest-post that is so excellent and proves to be so popular, that it replaces “Computer Can’t See BT Home Hub.- Updated” – or whatever – at the Number 1 position at the top of the chart, and remains there for at least three months.

The Prize: -

Should you succeed in your mission; you will be rewarded by being paid the sum of Fifty Pounds Sterling (English money.), or the equivalent thereof, in a currency of your choice, via PayPal. (Currently around $75.00USD)

This mission may appear to be a difficult one; but it is achievable, (I’ve already succeeded in it myself.) and it is not illegal; in that It does not violate the principles of kkomp.com in any way.

However there are a number of rules that must be adhered to: -

THE RULES

In no particular order:

*) The guest-posts submitted for publication must be written to cover a technical issue, be about an item of technology, a tech how-to, or be a news item with a technical flavour. Guest-posts that are not of this type will be disqualified. (They may or may not be retained and posted elsewhere at a later date.)

**) Whilst any one person may make any number of submissions of different posts, no one single identical or extremely similar guest-post will be re-entered into the running after its first publication.

***) Any guest-author may submit their entry, either under their real name, an alias, or an assumed name. – Unless they have been banned from doing so for whatever reason.

****) Video and audio files, such as podcasts, mp4, mp3, wmv, wma, etc, files, may be submitted as a part of an article. (Please try to avoid using Apple Quick Time files.) The entry/ies that you submit must be on a page or pages; meaning that they cannot be a video alone, or a podcast alone, but must be encrypted or hard-coded, using html , javascript, and I will accept a hard-coded .flv inside a player, particularly You-Tube. (No php hard-coding please.) onto a page. Please remember that if I can’t publish them fairly easily then I won’t do so. (Don’t forget to attach your files to the submission email if they’re not available to be streamed straight from the web.)

^) Posts that are considered to contain deliberately incorrect or misleading information, or where the author simply doesn’t have a clue, will be disqualified.

^*) All posts submitted must be accompanied by a valid PayPal-registered email-address. If they are not then I can’t pay you if you succeed in your mission. – However your post may nevertheless be published if it is deemed suitable, yet you will receive no reward should it get to and remain at the Number 1 slot for the specified period of time. Unless you submit a post accompanied by such an email address, I will not associate forwarded email addresses with posts after the event of first receiving your post: The rule is simple. – Post without email wont get paid for even if it succeeds.

^**) Any post that contains spam, too much self-promotion, insults or language deemed to be offensive; including racist, sexist, discriminatory, or pornographic material, as deemed to be so by myself, will be instantly erased from my computer(s) without even being fully read.

^***) Posts that are not deleted under the provisions of the section immediately above, will all be considered for publication. However the decision of whether or not to publish any given post at any given time will be solely at my discretion.

^****) All entries/submissions must be received on or before Friday 11th December 2009. Any such submissions received after that date will be considered for publication, and may or may not be published. – However no prize will be awarded to any late entries, should they achieve the objective.

~) The closing date for this mission will be March 31st 2010 at midnight. If nobody manages to complete the mission to my satisfaction before then, then a consolation prize of twenty-five pounds Sterling or the equivalent in a currency of their choice will be paid, via PayPal, to the individual whom I consider to have come nearest to doing so, unless the mission should be aborted for reasons ( Specified or unspecified.) as mentioned herein or otherwise.

~*) The winner of the main prize, should the goal be achieved, OR the winner of the consolation prize, to be decided by myself in the event of the goal not being achieved, will be announced on this blog and subsequently awarded their payment during the month of April 2010, on a date yet to be announced during that month.

~**) My judgement in deciding the outcome of this mission’s rewards is final. No correspondence, by email or otherwise, will be entered into.

~***) Disclaimer: Although every effort will be made to keep my part of the bargain; please bear in mind that under extreme circumstances brought upon this agency, (Namely myself.); you are, as an agent of this agency, dispensable under this contract, should this website or its associates come under adverse attack from any given source at any given time. – Therefore it is possible, though improbable, that your mission may be terminated without notice at any time before its conclusion and that your efforts, however impressive and successful, would under those circumstances go unrewarded despite their effectiveness or lack thereof. I stress that this will only occur under extreme circumstances, and is most unlikely.

~****) In the event that a disqualified post, disqualified for any reason stated on this page or elsewhere in any official amendments to these terms, achieves the desired objective and is not eligible for payment, then the consolation prize will be awarded to the writer of the submission that I deem to be the runner-up.

~^) Further, possibly time-sensitive, instructions with regard to your mission briefing, may be posted clearly on this blog at any point in the future, should this be deemed necessary for any reason. Any failure to co-operate with any instructions given in the allotted time frame may result in the disqualification of your post from receiving any reward; should said post be successful in achieving its purpose.

~^*) Unless this mission should be terminated under the most extreme of conditions; which is highly unlikely, somebody (Somebody who submits a post that isn’t disqualified or ineligible to be considered for reward due to the circumstances outlined herein.) will get something. (Either the £50 main-prize, or the £25 consolation-prize.)

~^**) The above rules may be subject to change and/or partial or complete edition/addition/deletion, at any time and for whatever reason, as I see fit. Posts that are submitted other than in accordance with these rules will be disqualified.

~^***) In the event that more than one guest-post fulfils the mission, the £50GBP prize will be divided equally amongst the multiple winners. Remember; to win this prize your guest-post must climb to and remain at the Number 1 spot in the kkomp Top Ten for 3 calendar months or 90 days; whichever is the shortest.

~^****) Any submitted post that is discovered to be plagiarised, (Copied identically, word-for-word, either in full or in part from somebody else’s work.) will be instantly disqualified.

#)…Blah blah blah. – So to cut to the chase; if you want to be in with a chance of making some doshy-poos; get writing: You gotta be in it to win it.

Here are a few facts, for your information: -

No; facts, not fax!

1) No matter how many times I, as author and owner of kkomp.com, view any post, it does not count towards readership totals, and is not taken into account by my software used to calculate the kkomp.com Top Ten. – Therefore I am unable to artificially inflate the readership figures associated with any post, by design or otherwise.

2) All posts submitted that are posted will be credited to their respective authors. A link back to the author’s website will be included; provided that the author includes a location/URL to link to, as well as a short 160-word bio, in their submission email. Any posts posted elsewhere other than this blog; such as in ezine articles etc, will also be credited to their author, and, in addition to a link to this blog, will also have a link to the author’s site included.

2a) – In other words; posts submitted that are disqualified, or indeed any posts submitted, become my property; inasmuch as the fact that the submitting author grants a waiver of rights of copyright inasmuch as to the fact that I will be permitted, at my discretion, to post the article anywhere at any time, once only. When posted the original author will always be given credit. I reserve the right to add “Edited By:…” to the credits.

3) Posts submitted containing spam will be reported to the relevant authorities as having been authored by a suspected spammer.

4) Posts submitted that contain extreme defamatory, obscene, pornographic, racist, or hate-filled content, will be reported to the police along with the senders details including their ip address etc.

5) Make sure that the draft you send in the case of submission of an individual article is the final draft copy. Different versions of the same theme are acceptable, but any number of virtually identical multiple posts, overly erroneous, incomplete, or illegible, entries, will be disqualified and deleted.

How to Submit Your Draft Guest-Post(s)

*** The method that you should use to submit your guest-post is outlined below. Submissions that do not meet these criteria may still end up being published if at all possible, but will not be eligible for any payment, should they succeed on achieving their goal.

1)Write your guest-post using Windows Live Writer in edit view.

(If you don’t have Windows installed on your computer, then you’ll either need to install a Virtual Machine and run Windows in it, so that you can use Windows Live Writer, or dual-boot with your existing OS and Windows, or do the equivalent operation on whatever word-processing software, (Not Microsoft Word) that you’re using on your Linux or Mac OS.)