As promised, here are the results of the most recent Upstart Blogger competitions. I’ll begin with the five free iPhones.

In no particular order, David Hampton, Patricia Dean, Jenny Morton, John Hislop and Mike Lodge. I’ve contacted you all directly and as soon as I have your address details the shiny new iPhones will be on their way to you.

Next I’ll deal with the big one, the MacBook Air.

Congratulations go to Carlos Sarge whose name was drawn out of a hat containing over one hundred and forty names an hour or so ago. As above, I’ve contacted Carlos directly to arrange delivery.

The Pitch for May 2008 had many entries and judging them was not an easy task. In the end I decided to choose a project that had the most commercial potential whilst at the same time having qualities that I considered worthwhile and beneficial to the blogosphere. Alana, who’s surname is unavailable to me at this time since it was not included in the entry comment, put forward an idea for a simple and honest parenting blog. This is the project that I have chosen to receive the various benefits set out in the original post.

That leaves the two domain names, one which you know, spamchow.com and which I will reveal in a moment.

spamchow.com is on it’s way to Ken Wong where it will hopefully become a successful scam and spam buster blog, reviewing the pro blogging scene and helping to separate the spammers and scammers from the genuine money makers. I like Ken’s idea since it is both commercially viable and socially, in web terms, responsible.

Now, the five letter premium domain name.

wpjoy.com is being transfered to someone called Blake whose name was, like Carlos and the iPhone winners, drawn out of a hat around an hour ago.

Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to everyone who took part. There will be many more exciting giveaways in the not too distant future. As usual, stay tuned to Upstart Blogger.

A big thank you also goes to the wonderful blogger who donated these two domain names but wishes to remain anonymous.

As wpjoy.com, spamchow.com, and whatever domain Alana and I decided upon for her parenting blog, will be featured in case studies in the future as they take shape in the hands of the new owners.

Finally, and as I sign off for a very much needed weekend break, a special thanks to everyone who has sent me emails or comments recently with regard to the personal matter I mentioned a little while ago. I am very happy, and extremely relieved, to tell you that I was given very good news today by my Doctor and that everything is ok.

It’s never easy to go into specific details about health so I’ll give you a clue. You can then go to wikipedia or google if you want the gory details.

Some symptoms suggested that I was going to follow in the foot steps of Claude Debussy.

Thankfully those symptoms have now vanished and I have a clean bill of health.

Have a great weekend.