Andy Beal Wants To Give You An iPod

Andy Beal is giving away an iPod Shuffle to an eagle-eyed RSS subscriber, with readers who spot a special RSS ad being entered in a drawing to get the super-tiny music player. The idea is to drive RSS subscriptions, and to encourage people to spread word of the contest, the prize gets better the more people that subscribe. If 2,500 people subscribe (Feedburner currently reports 1,219 readers), the prize becomes the new metal nano, and if 4,000 subscribe, it will be a shiny video iPod (presumably the 30-gig version).
It’s a pretty good way to get subscribers, assuming contestants spread the word (as I am doing right now). Another good thing to have are backlinks, so I would suggest Andy also ask readers to link to the giveaway on their blogs, and counting new Technorati links to the total for upping the prize. Imagine getting 1,000 neww Technorati links; that would be worth an iPod to me.