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		<title>No more Waiting List!</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2009/04/no-more-waiting-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s safe to say that the waiting list has outlived its usefulness.  When we first launched LookContests.com, I wanted to make sure that the site would be reasonably fast and responsive, so the waiting list was a way of managing the number of users and ensuring that new users were added only when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LookContests on Contest Queen&#8217;s BlogTalkRadio</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2009/04/lookcontests-on-contest-queens-blogtalkradio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2009/04/lookcontests-on-contest-queens-blogtalkradio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Wilman (a.k.a. The Contest Queen) was nice enough to feature LookContests.com on her BlogTalkRadio show last week.  I thought she ran a very thoughtful and intelligent interview, and Dan (representing LookContests) gave a lot of background information on the ideas behind the site and our plans for the future.  Check it out if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moved to a new Server</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2009/03/moved-to-a-new-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished moving the site to a new server.  There really shouldn&#8217;t be much change in performance, but this will allow the site to grow in the future.
If anyone&#8217;s interested in the technical details, the server is an Amazon EC2 instance, which means LookContests.com has moved into the cloud.  Being in the cload has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LookContests Featured on &#8220;From the Contest Queen&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/11/lookcontests-featured-on-from-the-contest-queen/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/11/lookcontests-featured-on-from-the-contest-queen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Contest Queen wrote a very nice post about LookContests today. If you haven&#8217;t checked out her site, please do so.  There&#8217;s a lot of great material about contests there, and she&#8217;s got a very active blog.
Here&#8217;s a link to the post:
http://www.contestqueen.com/fromthe/2008/11/29/why-now-why-not/
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		<title>Performance Improvements</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/06/performance-improvements/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/06/performance-improvements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just implemented some changes that should make the site consistently faster than it has been.  I suspect regular users will notice a fairly decent improvement.
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		<title>By Request:  New Features</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/05/by-request-new-features/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/05/by-request-new-features/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just updated the site with some new features which are, for the most part, geared towards power users.  I&#8217;m just going to give a quick run-down of the changes here, and I&#8217;ll try to elaborate on them in the next day or two.

On the Settings page, there is now an option to exclude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have Suggestions?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/05/do-you-have-suggestions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lookcontests.com/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve made any changes to the site, but please rest assured that I&#8217;ve been steadily working away on some new features.  In fact, now would be a great time to let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas that would improve LookContests.com.
One of the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fine-tuning the Contest Frequencies</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/04/fine-tuning-the-contest-frequencies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/04/fine-tuning-the-contest-frequencies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just completed an update to the site that includes a few minor changes and one fairly significant one. The minor changes are listed at the bottom of this post, but first I&#8217;d like to address the larger one.
The frequency of a contest is key to the logic for LookContests.com. We started out with fairly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Issue with Validation Codes in Internet Explorer</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/04/an-issue-with-validation-codes-in-internet-explorer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/04/an-issue-with-validation-codes-in-internet-explorer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been brought to my attention (thanks Alain and Ron!) that some sites will not display the validation image when you load them in LookContests.com.  For example, you may see something like this:

The problem, of course, is that you can&#8217;t see the squiggly letter that you&#8217;re supposed to type.  This seems to be a problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Membership Update</title>
		<link>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/04/membership-update/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lookcontests.com/2008/04/membership-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I&#8217;ve sent and re-sent invitation to everyone who has added their email address to the waiting list over the past few days.  If you&#8217;ve signed up but still haven&#8217;t receive an invitation from me, please send me an email at webmaster@lookcontests.com
Now that that&#8217;s out of the way, I can hopefully turn my attention [...]]]></description>
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