I just wanted to post a reminder about my blog user survey.  I’d greatly appreciate it if people took a couple minutes going through and filling them out.  I have two of them set up, each with 6 questions:

Click Here for the Survey on the Blog’s Content

Click Here for the Survey on the Blog’s Navigation and Structure

Of course, if you read this over the RSS, I wouldn’t necessarily expect you to fill out the Navigatoin and Structure survey, but if people could fill out the content survey, that’d be great.  I’m trying to collect information that I can use towards my next design, which I hope to launch somewhere around the end of August.

And one final note not related to the surveys: I hope to get Aoi Hana episode 5 out tonight.  However, like last week, that’ll depend on the raws.  If the raws get out by 9 or so tonight, I’ll probably be able to get it up.  Otherwise, it’ll probably have to wait until tomorrow.

I’m in the process of designing Version 7 of this blog, and as part of that process, I wanted to see if I could get input from those people who actually visit this blog. As a result, if you could just take a few moments to answer a few questions, it would be greatly appreciated!

Click Here for the Survey on the Blog’s Content

Click Here for the Survey on the Blog’s Navigation and Structure

Of course, if there is a problem with the survey itself, please let me know…

Thank you for participating!

Update

I had forgotten about those who might view my site via the RSS feed.  Hopefully you’ll be able to at least fill out the Content survey, since I hope that’s mainly independent of how someone views the site.  I’ll understand why those viewing via RSS wouldn’t be able to fill out the Navigation and Structure survey out very well.

Perhaps you have or haven’t noticed, but for the past 10 days or so, if you visit the ANN website, view it in it’s default theme, and then mouse over the left side of the page, you see a black silhoutte pop up on it with a question mark on it.  When you click on it, it takes you to a crazy looking site called omgitscoming.com.

The site features a rotating silhouette picture (they’re on their fifth version) and a ticker counting down to noon on this upcoming Thursday, which is registration pick up day for Otakon, by the way.  The site has no HTML comments and has been registered with a service to keep the real registrant’s identity private.

Thus far, the five images on the site have been the following:

Whether these things have anything to do with whatever is going to be announced, who knows.  About the only thing we can (possibly) assume is that it’s anime related, as the add is on ANN’s website.  But what about anime – a con announcement, a new license announcement, etc. – much less by whom is completely unknown.

There have been some theories floating around that it could be an announcement for Kannagi, as the Kannagi fan site has a somewhat similar pixelated photo on it’s page with a note to check back for a “special message,” also on this Thursday.  Also, there is the fact that It’s OMG (oh my god) and Nagi is a goddess, so there would some level of hinting there if it turns out to be that.  Of course, if it’s Kannagi, what could the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th image possibly have to do with it?

Update:

I should note that it is counting down to noon in the timezone correlating with UTC-0700, which is Pacific time (I think originally it didn’t have a time zone set).  This signifies a couple of things: a) it’s probably not Otakon related.  b) it’s probably not related to a Japanese company.  c) It’s probably not related to Media Blasters (NYC), Funimation (Texas), ADV (Texas), or Right Stuf (Iowa).  The only major anime companies based on the west coast that I’m aware of are Viz and Bandai.  I guess I should also note that Geneon Entertainment – what’s left of it anyway – is also based in California.

Update 2

And as soon as I post this, ANN puts up a new skin, and the old question mark man is gone, even if you switch back to the old design.  Odd that whoever is pulling that stunt would suddenly stop advertising it on ANN 3 days before whatever announcement is going to happen.