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Zod sent me a link this morning of an article referring to Kitkast. The Sydney Morning Herald wrote:

There are several sex video podcasts, such as Kitkast, which was launched in October.

Well, thanks for mentioning me, but where are all of these sex video podcasts that you speak of? Sure, Soccergirl has put out a few video-podcasts, but I would label those video-podcasts as sexy-fun, not quite sex. I must admit, though, the same label could go for Kitkast, but the show does hit on explicit subjects such as porn, strippers and sex.

I think what the newspaper meant to say was that there are several sex podcasts… which is true. In fact, Soccergirl has a very successful sex audio-podcast and so does Fleshbot writer Violet Blue. However, I think that sometimes the smaller podcasts are shrouded by the more popular ones, so if anyone out there can link me to some sex video-podcasts (not Suicide Girls)… please do.

If this was not what the newspaper meant to say, I have a feeling that the Sydney Morning Herald was doing just what I hate most about the mainstream media… writing their own facts. < sarcasm > “Well, if one sex video-podcast exists… then there must be several!” < /sarcasm > Gees… just because a reporter says that there’s weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, doesn’t mean it’s the truth…

I have no idea whether Dita Von Teese was this ridiculous before she started seeing Marilyn Manson, but one thing is for sure; dating Marilyn can’t be much of a positive influence on anyone’s life. For example:

Marilyn Manson’s fiancée Dita Von Teese threw a massive temper tantrum after a DJ branded her a “stripper” who is dating a “freak”.

The burlesque dancer had been due to perform one of her sexy routines in a giant martini glass at an exclusive New York party held after the Victoria’s Secret fashion show.

But Dita refused to put on her show after record spinner D.J. Juske announced her as a “stripper attached to a freak”.

When the beautiful brunette failed to appear, Juske then further infuriated her by chanting for her to “get the f**k on the stage”.

According to reports, Dita was furious with the comments and told organisers there was no way she would perform, according to America’s New York Post newspaper.

However, the sexy star, who is due to marry Manson in a gothic themed ceremony this December, was eventually talked into going on stage after the event’s producer apologised profusely for Juske’s “lack of respect”.

Obviously Ms. Von Teese needs to see a psychologist if she has gone this crazy over the comment. I understand that she may not want to be referred to as a stripper, but although burlesque dancing is considered an art, it really is just old-time striptease. Also, she may be insulted that the DJ referred to her fiancé as a freak, but that’s exactly how he’s been marketing himself… it’s his claim to fame.

I don’t think Dita would be as popular as she is today if she hadn’t started dating Mr. Manson, and I don’t think that he would be as popular today had he not chosen to wear crazy clothes and contact lenses and act like such a freak. Perhaps Dita’s temper tantrum was just a way to make herself more popular… cause a stir and you might actually make it into a newspaper, Dita!

It is no big surprise that Marilyn Manson is a freak, so I believe that Dita is having a hissy fit over being branded a stripper. Well, I just went to Dita’s web site and I can tell you this: I can see pictures of her nipples in the free photo gallery… so, what’s in the members only area? Perhaps I would have more respect for Ms. Von Teese as a strictly burlesque dancer if she were covering her nipples with pasties.

So, what is a stripper? Well, I can tell you that the Dictionary.com definition of a stripper is “One who performs a striptease.” As a performer of burlesque dancing, Dita may not consider herself a stripper, but since the definition of burlesque is “A variety show characterized by broad ribald comedy, dancing, and striptease”, she could actually be branded with three different occupation-names; a comedian, a dancer and a stripper.

I have great respect for the art of burlesque dancing, especially after going to so many awful strip clubs where the girls look as bored as Paris Hilton and dance worse than Elaine from Seinfeld. Burlesque dancing is true entertainment, but there are lines that mustn’t be crossed if a person doesn’t want to be branded a stripper.

In a Portuguese review of Kitkast a few weeks ago I was called a Canadian stripper… does it bother me? No. I have never appeared naked or even half naked on the Internet, in magazines or in public, but I am not upset at being called a stripper. In my case, the review was wrong, but in Ms. Von Teese’s case, the DJ was absolutely right. Get over it, Dita.

So, the next question is: If Dita is considered a pin-up… does that make her a porn star too?

Last week I had a dream that I was at work and one of my coworkers put a telephone directory on my desk. When I turned to look, I noticed that there was a huge advertisement for Kitkast at the top of the pile of sheets. I may not pay for advertising, but I was quite paranoid when I realized that my coworker knew about my other life.

When I was talking with my friend Annie this weekend about how to make money off of a blog and podcast, she suggested something very different. While I was thinking of the traditional advertising, affiliates and merchandizing, Annie suggested that I go to a strip club, do a show and then review what it felt like. That way I can make some money in tips and drive more traffic to my site. I was taken aback by her suggestion since it wasn’t the same track I was thinking of, but I guess I had it on my mind as I went to bed last night because…

Last night I dreamt I was working in a strip club while still working in my current day job. On my first day at work, three of my diplomatic coworkers walked into the club. I went up to the tiny stage and clumsily worked the pole, then flipped myself upside down and did a whole bunch of sexy stuff upside down (moves only Spiderman could pull off) so that they wouldn’t recognize me. After the performance, I got off the stage (they didn’t end up recognizing me) and then I went into the back room and had a hot lesbian encounter with one of the other dancers.

Outside of the pleasant finale, the dreams were actually quite troubling. I guess it’s just the ongoing paranoia that one of my coworkers will find out and disapprove of my growing connection with the sex industry.

It could also have to do with the amount of extra work I’ve been doing for my erotic dance teacher this weekend. On Saturday morning, I woke up at 6:30am in order to drive up north to help teach four erotic dance classes to a few hundred women. Nineteen hours later I arrived home with a soar lower back and soar feet. Then after sleeping ten hours and lounging around the house in my bathrobe (Hefner style), I headed out to dance some more.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was asked to dance for an upcoming DVD. The DVD was apparently being made for instructors in other cities as well as students if they wish to have a keepsake in order to remember the routines they were taught. The DVD will sell privately for $15.

So that’s my crazy weekend of striptease… I’m sorry that I didn’t post anything on Thursday or Friday, I’m just glad that I was able to finish editing Kitkast this week without too much stress!

Don’t you hate it when reporters aren’t paying attention to the story? They end up coming out with biased articles like this:

Wireless industry association CTIA has just announced its “Wireless Content Guidelines,” a set of standards/procedures crafted in conjunction with the major carriers that aims to give parents more flexibility in limiting their children’s wireless internet access. The Guidlines consist of two parts: 1. A pledge by carriers to divide their portals into “General” and “Restricted” (i.e. dirty) content, with carriers promising not to offer restricted content until parental controls are in place, and 2. A plan to implement SurfNanny-type controls on mobile handsets that block certain sites or restrict usage altogether. While on the surface this seems to be an altruistic gesture on the part of the wireless industry, we have a sneaking suspicion that much like the adult industry’s push for a .xxx domain (under the guise of protecting children), the carriers are actually just getting all their ducks in a row so they can finally start unleashing all sorts of pornographic content on the unsuspecting public.

It’s not that the reporting on the actual decision of CTIA to create guidelines that makes this article false, but the ’suspicion’ raised about the adult industry. In mid September, I made a post about the .xxx domain stating that “Both anti-porn advocates and porn sites have objected to the new domain“. So, why then is Engadget claiming that the adult industry ever pushed for a .xxx domain?

For the real story behind the move to create an .xxx domain, click here. You will find that the idea was not pitched by anyone in the adult industry nor was it supported as such. The truth is, pornographers know that if the .xxx domain exists, they may eventually be segregated by the government to operate strictly within the domain and they will be banished from the mainstream Internet. Unlike the guy that pitched the idea, pornographers aren’t that stupid.

I have no opinion on the new Wireless Content Guidelines unless it affects Kitkast. Kitka out.

I came across an interesting tool at Steve Garfield’s Video Blog the other day that rates your blog. Garfield had used the tool to see how much his Video Blog was worth and it was quite a nice shiny penny. Intrigued to see how my blogs/vlogs would rate, I gave it a try.

Apparently, while mskitka.com is worth over $20,000, kitkast.com is worth absolutely nothing. So, although Kitkast has almost 3000 subscribed viewers each day, the site is viewed as worthless by Technorati.

Funny… especially if you look at this graph (pictured above) that shows the feedburner RSS feed statistics. On that list, Kitkast should be worth much more than $0. Unfortunately, even this graph is incomplete… Rocketboom is nowhere to be listed on the list of vlogs, so I have absolutely no idea how Kitkast might rate by comparison. All I’m sure of is that Rocketboom would blast off the map as well, probably surpassing Kitkast’s lead on vlog subscribers.

So, why is Technorati’s assessment so different from vlogmap.org? Links.

Technorati doesn’t give a rat’s ass about how many people have subscribed to your feeds or how many people have visited your site. The only thing Technorati is concerned with is how many people have linked to your blog. What an outdated ranking system. Well, since kitkast.com is only a couple of weeks old and hasn’t really been publicized as being a separate domain from mskitka.com, no one has linked to it yet. Therefore, Technorati says it is worthless.

So, how should we judge blogs and vlogs in the future? I’m no techie (I’m a Trekkie), but I do know that these are a couple of factors that should be taken under consideration for rating a site as a whole:

• Number of daily subscribers
• Number of daily unique visits

No links, you ask? No. The reason being that often the only reason a link is on a site is because it is a courtesy for being listed on a directory. This opens too many possibilities. A person could start a whole bunch of fake blogs just to link to one blog or a person can make it a standard in the blog software so that every time someone starts a new blog there are certain blogs listed on his/her page. The whole thing is just messy… why should we rate blogs/vlogs by their number of incoming links?

When I first started mskitka.com I found the whole link issue stressful. Since I knew that Technorati and BlogShares would rate my site using the link method I was a little stingy to provide links at first. When I first started my blog, I made a link to CodeRonin and SugarBank only because they were the two most important blogs to me. However, after being nudged by friends and directories, I realized that I had to start providing more links. This is why I made a links page instead of a links section in the sidebar (like most bloggers).

However, when it comes to Technorati and BlogShares, it seems there’s no way to escape their established system. Won’t someone out there programme a better standard for judging sites?