Several people have asked when the Champions Online series will end, if I’ll do anything next, and what that might be:<\/p>\n
1) The Champions Online series will end with part 15. This should go up the last week of December or the first week of January, depending on how much time I take off for the holidays. <\/p>\n
2) Yes, I’ll be doing another Let’s Play series after this.<\/p>\n
3) I can’t tell you any more than that right now.<\/p>\n
Now, those of you following my Twitter feed know that I’ve been voting for The Escapist<\/a> in the latest Web 2.0 popularity contest at Mashable. <\/p>\n Despite my mocking<\/a>, this sort of thing is actually really important to web companies. Nobody ever talks about it because it would be unseemly, but scoring awards like this can give a publication a lot of clout when attracting advertisers and also in dictating what they can charge those advertisers. Winning stuff like this can help improve the fortunes of a company, particularly younger ones. Since I’ve hitched my wagon to the Escapist, I’d love for them to reap those rewards.<\/p>\n I’d also love for them to win because of the nice counterbalance they provide to the review-score hype mills<\/a> that usually get all the attention<\/a>*. I think a lot of us here like thoughtful articles as opposed to fanboy-driven ego-stroking, and so it would be nice if we could lift up the stuff we value. <\/p>\n Which is all a really roundabout way of me begging for votes for my friends at The Escapist, which is a thing you could do by clicking on this link<\/a>. It’s all done through Twitter, so you have to have a Twitter account to vote. I’m sorry. It’s a web 2.0 thing. Didn’t you know? Web 2.0 is about connecting every social media site to every other one in a giant clusterfarg of account names and logins until the whole network collapses in on itself and forms a CSS-compliant singularity.<\/p>\n I’ll make a deal with you: If the Escapist wins, I’ll post a burning, hate-filled screed on everything that totally bugs me about the Mashable awards. <\/p>\n But not yet. Don’t want to tip our hand just yet.<\/p>\n