Because I know that I want to be ready for next year, here are some afterthoughts after this years blogathon.

1. Lots of snacks – check. I had all the snacks I needed this year!
2. Capture software, to capture sounds and video on the screen. I Totally needed this so I can catch some Really cool parts to later convert to video and then send to You Tube. Danalyn, you’ve been warned! Capture wars are on next year!
3. Movie Quote sound clips rock! A lot of people seem to like these. But being so anal about things, I think next year, I’d like to make sure I break it down in categories, and possibly into different difficulty levels as well. i.e. obscure quotes to obvious quotes.
4. Plan out some other kind of plan concerning linking and such. I had so many entries where it was just such a pain to link people that I didn’t. I’m so sorry folks, I’ll be sure to have some kind of system next year, so I only have to enter a name and it will auto link it. I’m still thinking of this. I’m sure there’s an EE plugin for it.
5. Definitely think of more polls beforehand. Trying to come up with new polls during the blogathon was tough. Almost painful.
6. Get a better webcam for my PC. I’ve been Really putting it off. But I think I Really need a way better webcam than the old Webcam 3 I have from so long ago. It’s so old. Probably one of the first webcams by Creative. I just need one that looks like a borg attachment.
7. Have a bit of variety of prizes. I think I’d like to have real gifts instead of gift certificates. Although Betty was Really excited to get her Amazon.com gift certificate! I know that next year I’d like to hand out a grand prize for 1 year of Flickr Pro. Wonder how popular that would be? I think I’d like to do a poll on what prizes people would like!
8. Come up with a better drawing system for prizes. I know that I could probably draw strips of paper from a hat, and this year, I just had people choose a random number, but next year I think I’d like to have the readers themselves choose the winner. I’m still brewing on how i’ll do it, but maybe i’ll end up using the polls and have winners that way. Hmm that sounds nifty!