What’s the use of having a blog if you don’t use it to shamelessly promote yourself and leverage your audience to increase your fame and fortune?

I’ve submitted 2 photos to JPG magazine. If you’re interested in photography and don’t know about JPG, you should. Even if you’re only interested in the internet, you should know about the only magazine (I know of) to combine the best of Web 2.0 and print in one project.

Anyway, back to my photos. If one of them gets printed I get $100, a subscription, and maybe a lensbaby. Why am I telling you this? Well, in the grand old tradition of Web 2.0, whether or not a photo gets printed depends at least partially on how many votes it gets from the digital masses. That’s where you come in. Go check out this photo and the other photo too, and if you like them, click the big green button. That’s it. I’ll be eternally thankful, especially if I get published. And if you vote and leave a comment here to let me know, I’ll even thank you personally.

Damn, what could be Web 2.0ier than using your blog to send people to vote on the photo you uploaded somewhere else?