Feature Dio Author is different than a Popularity contest.
I would ask the Dio Author to post/show some Behind The Scenes shots. :)

There are a few forums i have found from friends of mine of flicker that do this everymonth. They have some generic questions they ask everymonth and then a few that are more directed towards work they have done in the past. Amongst other things, I always like to see the gear they use and things like that.

yeah, totally. Why not just pull names out of a hat?

That's one option we're looking at for choosing the names. We just wanted to make sure there were current users being chosen. If we took all the names in the member database and chose at random, we don't want to end up with the name of a guy who hasn't posted in years.

So far all the names we've been given are all current, active members. So we may just choose at random from that list.