Click on the "close contests" link on the California secretary of state's election site and you'll discover just nine of 53 congressional races, six of 80 state Assembly contests and 0 of 20 state Senate races to merit that distinction.
For example, Britney Spears's video e-mail, which was sent to members of her fan club, contains a short clip of the singer's latest single as well as a contest link, an e-commerce component that lets users order her latest CD and an automatic forwarding option.
From the user perspective, a Wildfire sweepstakes that's being run on Twitter is very straightforward: clicking a contest link will take you to a basic sweepstakes form, which includes a pre-populated Tweet that will alert your followers that you've just signed up for the contest.
The #pimpmyfactura project emerged last year in a contest that linked a foundation involved with low income daycares to TBWA, an advertisement agency that came up with a creative and concrete way of generating funds for the foundation.
In this spontaneous demonstration, over three million people took to the streets in June of that year to contest electoral irregularities linked to Ahmadinejad's reelection.
In this sense, identity work, sense-making and truth contests are inextricably linked altogether.
He called the Maazel competition unique for linking a contest with training.
Big traditional mailing list companies -- like Equifax and Experian -- have been buying e-mail addresses, often from these contest sites, and linking them with their vast stores of other information about people.
There you'll find links to lesson plans (including our special curriculum unit), student crosswords, a special Election 2012 student contest, and links to a huge variety of Times articles, Opinion pieces and multimedia.
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat are inextricably linked to athletic contests.
