John Chow Vs. Shoemoney - All But Over
written by John Chow

Thanks to ComicTan for making the cartoon. Noticed that Shoe has to use both hands to try and grab a new reader?
With just five days to go in the John Chow Vs. Shoemoney RSS competition, I lead the Shoe by 2,539 readers. As a matter of fact, I now have more total RSS readers than Shoemoney. Unless Shoe pulls some kind of magic rabbit out of a hat, this competition is all but over.
If you blogged about the competition and told your readers to subscribe to my feed, then please let me know because you could win some great prizes, including a $750 blog redesign by Adriann Pienaar of Adii. I’ll be drawing winning blogs at the end of the month so get your entry in now. Full rules here.
In the mean time, I still have some stuff to give away for the RSS by Email subscribers. They include:
- Two books (The Search and Wikinomics) by Piggy Bank Pie
- $144 webhosting package from Tribune Hosting
- A free review by CashQuests
- Two copies of An American Hedge Fund
The winners will be drawn this Sunday. You have to be subscribed to my RSS by Email in order to win. If you haven’t done so, just enter your email address here and confirm the your subscription.
This Is Me After I beat Shoemoney

Thanks to ToonRefugee for the cartoon and thanks to Blogging Experiment for the heads up on the ‘toon. No pandas were harmed during the creation of this ‘toon. Or so I would have you believe. ![]()
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Congratulations to you John! 2k+ RSS reader lead is hard to beat.
Who knows, maybe Shoemoney has saved his most evil moves for last
I hear he almost got arrested for offering candy to children in exchange for them signing up to his feed 
I guess the money isn’t in the shoe this time.
This contest is still going? It was over several days ago when you overtook him. Nice comic there. It resembles you. But ShoeMoney looks like Darren Rowse there.
The contest won’t be over till the end of the month.
Well done John, only a month ago we were like Wohaa he made 8k readers, and look at the chicklet now..its 13k readers (yummie). Lets just hope that Shoe doesn’t like rabbits and hence he doesn’t have one, but even if he did…only 5 days to go
Man with Jeremy, it aint over until he says its over. I am not taking sides but dont underestimate that guy, he can pul something out of his noggin which can turn the game upside down!
Hey congrats man!
I also subscribed to your RSS feed
there’s always juicy news on your blog.. good stuff!
LOL, this is so funny!
you are talking about shoe using two hands to pull the new reader, just look at the new reader for a second, LOL!
Congratulations John! But still the contest is not over and might wanna watch out for Shoe. You never know, he is not a novice player either, he might pull out something really big at the very end.
Congratulations once again
Panda Pudding is awesome.. Kind of hard to find roaming Panda’s in Michigan but when I find one… MMmmmM
Hehe My tip for email subscriptions did work after all, does this mean I am entitled to be in the prize draw. It would be cool if I am winning something evil
Congrats on winning! I love the toons! Very funny…
I’m looking forward to winning that hosting package.
Any winning prize would work fine for me (even that review that I don’t know what I would do with).
I’ll be happy with any prize, really, anything! Just once I’d like to win something.
John, I’d love to see you win but I don’t agree with running over a defenseless panda bear.
Not Cool brah!
It’s a picture?
Wow you really stepped up on this competition eh?
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Call me stupid but I do not understand why John is running over a panda in the second cartoon. What am I missing?
He’s a notorious panda killer didn’t you know?
I wonder if Shoe created a marketing plan that asked for all of his readers to sign up in the last 24 hours of the competition?
that would be hilarious, but …. no, I don’t think that’s the case
Hehe. kill the panda killer, not the panda.
“Noticed that Shoe has to use both hands to try and grab a new reader”
Yeah and you’re just threatening to commit battery on him!
Neat cartoons. LOL. That guy has some talents. I signed up with your reader a while ago but never get your posts in my email for some reason.
Well played Chow. I am not conceeding yet but you have done a really good job
Gracious…
But a loser nevertheless?
Congrats, my money was on you anyway - just waiting for a few more days until I collect my winnings from Vegas. I blogged about it on my site here: http://www.agrandioseblog.com/2007/10/04/john-chow-vs-shoemoney-who-will-win/
What’s great is that you both win with the results of this contest: you’re both getting a substantial number of new readers! So while you can play it off as you “destroying” him all you want, we all know the real result
Definitely looking forward to the next two earnings posts, especially once you adjust for the new audience size.
I should add to my above comment…the Blogging for Boobs initiative has a reach of at least 50,000 users and bloggers, from sites as densely populated as MySpace, Blogspot, and Blog City. There’s a lot of potential subscribers out there.
Congrats John! Awesome toons by the way!
Hey man, sent you an email!
Sound like Shoe is ready to call it a day. Way to go John!
Now what? Will you have more competition???
ProBlogger?
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Hey John… I’m coming to beat you!!!
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~Shannon
Congratz! lol I really like this toon.
That poor new comer …
It’s all good fun!
The chances of me getting 13,000 subscribers in 5 days is…. crazy… but what the hell, I’m having fun…
… and you never know.
~Shannon
Well looks like John has it in the basket now. Slowly but surely!
From the way I look at the comic, Shoemoney seems to be scared of John’s fist.
The cartoon is indeed great! I think that congratulations are in order, though three more days remain after the week end. Well done John!
Hahahah! I like these cartoons
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I just loved the cartoon.
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Great cartoons! Talk about adding punch to a post! Very cool!
Congrats john for winning RSS readers competition through aggressive marketing and innovative writing. Keep it up.
surprise, I know you are a great marketer. I never expected this result.
congratulation john!this is indeed a great achievement because i personally witness your magnificant jump fomr 8000++ reader to the now 13