1,000+ Entries - Yea!

a lot of people out there just don't have the time to spend a lot of it on listening, voting & commenting. I'm sure I'm not the only person who works on a computer all day, but because of other responsibilities has limited computer play-time. Also, after making a recovery from obsessive post-itis, I try to stay away from message boards because I KNOW I can't resist... there's always something interesting, provocative, or contentious that just begs for a response, then I just HAVE to respond to whoever responds to my response, and so on ad infinitum!

Best of luck to all!

And I imagine it is what people rate you, not just how many times you have been rated... In any case, 9 of the finalists are chosen by the judges. This might not mean that the judges go over every single bit of audio, but probably that some intern somewhere at PRX does at the very least. I can't imagine it would hurt you to be popular and have a lot of comments, but it might depend on circumstances.

Good Luck!

Elizabeth

My entry at Public Radio Quest:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572

My College Radio Myspace (feel free to friend me!):
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio

Steve

No one should, look back with regret on all that they never did: the beauties they did not see, the music they did not hear, the flavors they did not taste, the aromas they did not inhale, the sensations they did not feel.

Some of us have Postitis - an incurable desire to post comments on internet communities. It's very different from Internet Troll Personality Disorder.

Seriously, I hope they DO listen to all of 'em. I have this vision of all of the judges spending days at their computers listening to entries (that's like 45 hours!) and compiling their top-20 list. Then all of the judges getting together on a conference call and taking turns reading their top choice and playing it for everyone to hear, and reading aloud that entrant's answers to the questionnaire. Going down the list until they have their top 10.

Okay, now I wish for invisibility or shape-shifting to listen in on the judges!!!! ;-)
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Judge my hostiness in the PRTQ

I agree...it seems a lot of people had trouble entering the contest.

I hope there will be an opportunity to try again.

Whaddya say, Talent Quest?

http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1866

Trust me, you're not alone. And I am sad to have missed hearing the entries that didn't make it through.

Natalie Davis
http://gdreadradio.net
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1068

1000+ if everyone places their spots in a central place we won't have far to look. So let's encourage everyone to join the community campfire and share their stories while we all sit around listening.

Ed

The good news: Peter Hyland and I were talking offsite and he figured that we have a better shot of winning this than winning the lottery. Hope that news brings smiles.

Good luck, all!!

Natalie Davis
http://gdreadradio.net
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1068

Oh, there is clearly a better shot at winning this than winning the lottery! people have about a 1% chance of being in the top 10, and about a .3% chance of winning (well, just based on 1000 applicants). In terms of most big contests that isn't bad at all! Although of course the vast majority of us will "lose," but we don't have to dwell on that!

Elizabeth
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572

Maybe we are winners any way because of who we are meeting and talking with. So here is my winning ticket. They asked for an intro and here it is. Public radio called to me and so here I am.
Yvonne
see ya on the radio
http://www.publicrdioquest.com/audio/user/202