MySpace, like YouTube, is holding a contest to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month.
MySpace has teamed with the Wall Street Journal on the contest, which is fascinating because (I imagine) there is exactly zero overlap between the stuffy WSJ readership and the hip, chaotically cool MySpace crowd. But they are sister companies under the mammoth News Corp., so maybe they thought it was a good idea to partner up.
Anyhow, the contest will make one MySpace user a “special correspondent” to the prestigious event. The winner will be chosen by a panel of experts and given a press pass to Davos.
Details are here. You choose one question to answer and record a video with your response:
- If you were given the opportunity to take one person (living or historical figure) to Davos in order to make an impact on the conference, who would it be and why?
- If you could engage the entire MySpace community in doing one thing to help make an economic different, what would it be?
- Why do you deserve the chance to attend the World Economic Forum as the MySpace Special Correspondent and how will your participation engage the audience?
The winner receives a press pass to the event and all-expense paid access to/from Davos, Switzerland. On the other hand, he or she will also be forced to sit through a lunch with editors from the Wall Street Journal.
This is a great way of giving back to loyal readers and user.
I think that a great person to bring/select is a normal Joe the Non-Techie who was down on his luck an found ways on the internet to put food on his table and clothes his family by becoming Joe the Techie.
The problems is that there is still a huge digital divide in society and it might be very difficult to find that person(s).
What other candidate(s) do you think would be interesting to bring ?
Don’t get me wrong, I think this is great. I just think the fact that myspace is partnering with the WSJ is funny.
Grey Poupon’s mustard-passing English plutocrats should team up with the eXtreme! snowboarders from Mountain Dew.
That’s Gangsta WASPy!
They’re trying to draw business users to MySpace… to better compete with the perceived traction facebook has there. So if WSJ readers want to go to Davos… which they do… they have to create a MySpace account. Brilliant actually.
I agree… I’d like to see what percentage of MySpace users read the Journal, or better yet, actually read a newspaper (more that just the Sports page) on a daily basis!
A free trip to the land of fine skiing, a chance to rub elbows with heads of states, and, for college-applying high-schoolers, a chance to bulk up their application forms, why not? Serious Ivy-League-aiming MySpace kids do exist, albeit in tiny minority.
Very clever move for WSJ, which urgently needs to cultivate a new generation of readers, now that the dead-tree press is drowning in red ink. The online WSJ edition has gotten a make-over, and it’s obvious that they are attempting to shed the stodgy image of the paper edition.
This year, the gloomy cloud of macro economic apocalypse might ruin the fun for the casual attendees. Worry not, however, there is never a shortage of hoity-toity crowd at Davos.
There are at least two typos on the Myspace Journal page. Umm, I’m not perfect either, but I kinda hoped better when you put the resources of Myspace + WSJ together.
“Syndication fo your MySpace blog via WSJ.com”
“doing one thing to help make an economic different”
Still, really cool idea. I want to win!
Mike,could you recheck your text link,cause I cant find where to join in that myspace event.
Or could you give me
the link
Crack reporting we can expect:
“Dude, I’m, like, *so* into economics…”
“Holy s**t, the World Bank is screwed…”
“Doing after-conference shots with Kofi Annan and Angela Merkel! FTW!”
I connect the two because many of my hip hop business contacts are on MySpace (via a hip hop pr site with which I’m involved) and my reading of the Wall St. Journal (back at Ohio State while I was working on my PhD in Cultural Studies!) was one of the things that led me to business related blogging.
When I’m really on my hip hop business blogging game, that ish is seamless!
http://www.prohiphop.com
But I imagine there’s an unspoken age bias in this contest and so, though I’m seriously considering applying, I would be very surprised if I could win something like this.
Aging out sucks. But at least I understand what it means to have lived before the Internet.
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