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A DonorsChoose.org Miracle: My Dinner With Jerry (and BoomTown Plans to Vanquish the Naked Scoble!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2008 at 6:35 am PT

If it’s Oct. 1, it must be time for the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008! DonorsChoose.org funds classroom projects in high-need public schools, using the Web to match teacher project requests with donors. Last year, BoomTown did pretty well, raising $12,199 from 52 donors, impacting 1,940 students and almost scoring the grand prize of a lunch with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. Well, I finally managed to get a dinner with him, as you can see in the video after the jump. But now I face a more daunting task–besting the naked Scoble!