Some of you may be aware of Pledgebank, the website where you can pledge your time, money or support for various causes - we've written about it before, and lent our support to a pledge led by Danny O'Brien to help set up a British digital rights organisation.
But MySociety, the team behind the site, have long been interested in how they might help the site expand and get used in other countries like America.
Well here's one way - Chris Anderson, the curator of the TED conferences and the founder of Future Publishing, is offering $1,000 for the best pledge:
I pledge to give $1000 to the person with the best eyepopping pledge idea offered here by the end of October, provided more than 5 people contribute an idea.
Tom Steinberg, the director of MySociety, seems pleased - he dropped us a line to say that this gesture took him pretty much by surprise, but could raise the profile. "PledgeBank's gone pretty well so far anyway, but this is a lovely offer which should produce some good stuff," he said.
