Blogging for Dollars (College Edition)

This one comes courtesy of political gossip blog Wonkette, which in a shocking turn of events, does not require a dirty words warning on the link: "Get a Scholarship For Your Dumb Political Blog!"

Scholarships Around the US has an annual $2,000 Political Blogging Scholarship for full-time college students; here's what they say:

"Scholarship Requirements:

• Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about political issues, current events, opinions, etc. No spam bloggers please!!!
• U.S. citizen;
• 3.0 GPA;
• Currently attending  full-time in post-secondary education; and
• If you win, you must be willing to allow us to list your name and blog on this page. We want to be able to say we knew you before you became awell educated, rich, and famous blogging legend."

In their "no spam" request, you'll note that they use bold text, three exclamation marks and "please," so that will undoubtedly deter any spammers or griefers.

Submissions are due by Sunday, Feb. 4th, and there's a public voting phase (gee, that should go well... that's two overly-cynical remarks from me in a row, I'd better stop).

See their site for details.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: political blogging, blogging scholarships, wonkette, overly cynical