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I often travel to the UK around Christmastime, but this year I’m in Toronto at Zod’s parents’ house. When I read about shows like this being on the Paramount Comedy channel in the UK, though, I wonder if fate is playing an evil trick on me:

We all know that porn is dubbed.

We all know that porn is dubbed badly.

But porn has never been dubbed like this!

Prepare to be aroused, amused and appalled as Badly Dubbed Porn takes excerpts from some of the adult industry’s more ropey films and redubs the dialogue to liven things up a bit!

For example, check out our exquisite and unique versions of saucy epics such as Gladiator (no, not that one) or Cleopatra And The Archaeologists; marvel at how we’ve reinterpreted the tense filth fests that are The Last Blonde In LA and Spy School.

We’ve all seen porn - come on admit it - but you won’t have seen porn like this!

So, if you live in the UK, love comedy and enjoy the odd porn flick, I suggest you check it out. The show is playing from December 24-26 (check the schedule for details).

I never thought that my site would win in a tie with Fleshbot for the “Best Sex Blog” award on KBCafe, but it did.

The awards were determined by visitor’s votes and I didn’t know that I was even nominated until the winners were announced yesterday. This comes as a complete surprise and it’s quite touching since Fleshbot is the most read sex blog out there.

So now I realize that I really have to get myself back onto the blogging wagon. Since things have been very busy at work, I have not had a lot of time to write many rivetting posts this month but all that will change in 2006. Here is a short list of my new year’s resolutions:

• Find a better job;
• Spend more time writing on MsKitka.com;
• Go to bed at a more reasonable hour;
• Spend more quality time with Zod.

This is what I love to do and I hope to do more of it in the new year. I would like to make more contacts and find a job where I can balance my sites more evenly, whether it be working as a writer, a videoblogger or a model. All I hope for 2006 is that it will be easy to tell my parents about my sexploits when I come out of the closet, per se.

Thank you to everyone reading my blog and/or watching Kitkast, you are my true rewards.

As someone involved in blogging and vlogging, I find it interesting to see how quickly/slowly this reporting format is being established by the mainstream media. A couple of weeks ago I was explaining to a friend of mine in the Graduate School of Journalism at Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada, about the importance of establishing a network of Internet-based media. My friend had started a blog a few months ago, but stopped blogging after her parents disapproved of the activity. Perhaps personal blogging is too intimate for their taste, but what if she started a media blog?

When visiting BuzzMachine this afternoon, I came across a post discussing the evolution of journalism. Apparently, the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY) has changed the term “new media” to “interactive journalism”.

Why is this of interest? Instead of dividing new media from traditional media, the school recognizes the importance of amalgamating them in order for the mainstream media to stay afloat. As computer-challenged baby-boomers start to die off, who will care about print journalism anymore?

Although blogs and vlogs are becoming more and more popular, the truth is that we need the mainstream media. Without someone being paid to do research and write “authentic” articles, what material would bloggers have to blog on? As one of my readers commented a few weeks ago, most blogs are aimed against President Bush and his back door policies. Without the mainstream media leading the way to write flawed and biased stories, where would we get our content?

Just as in society, the key to success is networking. Align yourself with others and you have a higher chance of getting noticed. Take my blog, for example. Before Kitkast first aired, I was lucky to have 12 readers. But now that Kitkast viewers are at about 3000 regular viewers, readership of my blog has gone up to around 130.

In other words, giving people more reasons to visit your site is what makes it a success. This is why it’s important for the mainstream media to adapt to the new media to form what is now called “interactive journalism”. By having the big guys at MSNBC and the Washington Times announcing their new blogs, more people are curious to check out the site and to follow their ramblings. Evolution is truly what drives traffic and shoots ratings sky high.

< john-lennon > So this is Christmas… < /john-lennon >

Does America realize that they are a nation of fear? If it wasn’t obvious enough with the fear mongering to validate the war on terror, it’s obvious now.

This Christmas is all about fear; the fear of purchasing presents for our children that will facilitate the private download of porn. Last year the PSP was the big cheese at Christmas, but did countless reporters and religious columnists write article upon article about the dangers of mobile porn? Not to my recollection.

Why, then, is the mainstream media so adamant about communicating the concern that perhaps we shouldn’t be buying video iPods or high resolution celphones for under-18s? As I’ve said before, it’s just part of a right-wing religious agenda to create fear in the hearts of every parent and to put pressure on porn industry distributors to think twice about releasing racy content.

Last night I was watching The Situation Room on CNN and, although I normally snub my nose at CNN’s ridiculous farce of programming, I was actually surprised at the interesting opinions expressed by the viewers about the dangers of celphone porn. When viewers were asked what they thought was the biggest danger of celphone porn, the answer I enjoyed hearing the most contained one word, “Eyestrain”.

In an e-mail yesterday I was talking with a friend about the quality of porn. His argument was that video-podcasts gearing towards pornographers and porn connoisseurs should not be compressed too much since these people thrive on seeing high quality porn. If that’s the case, why should we worry so much about a tiny 2″ screen? (Besides, isn’t walking in on your parents having a sex as a child more traumatic than seeing it on TV? It’s kind of like the difference between seeing a murder on TV and seeing one in person.)

USA Today published an article yesterday about the new emerging market for celphone porn and about how concerned Christians parents are worried that their children will have easy access to pornography. Parents are angry at porn distributors because the hype teaches them they should be, but why aren’t they getting angry at the liberal celphone networks? After all, it is they who allow the content to be sent to their kids.

What the USA Today article neglects to mention is that the Wireless industry association CTIA has already announced its “Wireless Content Guidelines” which is meant to solve this problem. So, it seems all we have left barking about the danger of porn is right-wing activists hunting for new things to boycott:

Pick a cause and join a boycott.

Tackling corporate America these days on issues ranging from triple-X video sales to taking Christmas out of Christmas can be as easy as clicking on a Web site. But whether the campaigns do any real damage is hard to measure, experts say.

Even one of the most active boycott organizers, the American Family Association, says there is evidence the threat of a boycott may be more potent than the action itself.

“Everyone’s afraid to be bitten by a snake but the fear can be much worse than the bite,” says Randy Sharp, the AFA’s director of special projects. “Our policy is that before you call a boycott you do everything in your power to avoid it. They’re costly and time-consuming. You take the easy road first and work with the companies in private.”

So, to parents and religious fanatics I say this: < public-enemy > Don’t believe the hype! < /public-enemy > American celphones are only starting to get more advanced screens, but those are reserved for people who can afford to pay for them. I highly doubt you’re going to buy your child an iMate, so why don’t you just sit back, sip some egg nog and wait for the CTIA to implement their new guidelines.

Rocketboom is one of the most entertaining vlogs out there… and it’s really paying off for them:

In case you’re wondering, it has occurred to Mr. Baron and Ms. Congdon that they just might be sitting on a gold mine. At a cost of about $20 an episode, they reach an audience that some days is roughly comparable in size to that of, say, CNN’s late, unlamented “Crossfire” political debate show. They have no background in business, but Jeff Jarvis, who tracks developments in technology and culture on his blog, BuzzMachine.com (and who has served as a consultant to The New York Times on Web matters), pointed out to them that they might be able to charge $8,000 for an interactive ad at the end of the show, which would bring in about $2 million annually.

The financial opportunity here has occurred to others, too. TiVo, which can now be used to watch Web video on home television sets, just signed a deal to list Rocketboom in the TiVo directory - making it as easy to record as conventional television programs like “60 Minutes” and “Monday Night Football.” Giving up no creative control, Ms. Congdon and Mr. Baron will get 50 percent of the revenue from ads sold by TiVo to appear before and after their newscast, and their show will gain access to more than 300,000 TV sets connected to those new TiVo boxes. (That won’t include Mr. Baron, though, since he gave up watching television years ago, and doesn’t even own a set. He briefly considered buying one this year, but the thought passed. “I guess I’m going to hold out,” he said.)

Kitkast has certainly not been out as long as Rocketboom, but I certainly hope that it will have the opportunity to grow to become even half as popular. My dream is to start making enough money to do this full time… and if I did make enough money to quit my day job and do this full time I would make 5 episodes/week. I have this sneaking suspicion that if Kitkast were to make a daily video-podcast, the audience would expand exponentially.

So, the question is: how do I get there?

What I would like to do is to start pitching the show to companies. Whether it be for them to broadcast it on their channels, adopt it on TiVo or simply sponsor the production of the show in exchange for advertising. I would also be open to starting a spin-off video-podcast to host another show for a company (porn or non-porn related).

When I was browsing Playboy.com a few weeks ago I came across an interview with porn starlet Jesse Jane. Her responses to the questions were great, but the way the interview was set up was appalling. I believe that I would be able to do a much better job on something like this by acting as host, director and editor… and promoting it as a vlog/video-podcast. So, how do I get Playboy’s attention?

I sent an e-mail to Playboy last month hoping to get the contact details of someone in charge of Playboy sponsorships so that I could either pitch a sponsorship or a video-podcast idea. When I wrote a nice letter with my best diplomatic-writing experience, I got a reply simply saying “We would not be able to sponsor any sex video website.” I was shocked… obviously the person replying had no idea what I was talking about and didn’t bother checking out my show, let alone my web site. There’s no wonder why Playboy is falling behind on the podcasting stage.

(I replied to the e-mail with a kind in-depth clarification, I have not received a reply providing me with the contact details for the person in charge of sponsorships.)

Although I have some marketing ideas I would like to hear any ideas that my readers might have for further promoting Kitkast and making the transition from full time diplomatic secretary to full-time vlogger. I look forward to reading your comments.