Wow, I had absolutely no idea he was so well liked. I s'pose I agreed with some of his Soapboxes.
Even though he's pretty energetic and hyper-animated, he's always been pretty on the ball when it comes to the games as an industry and it's relationship with the mass media.
We need more advocates like him that don't sensationalize even the smallest, tangential relationships between events and gaming.
I think he'd actually be a great lobbyist type working for the EFF or even the ESA (if they stop being shitheads about SOPA-ish legislation.