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1. Give Wired’s sex blog a bad review and ridicule the writer on your video-podcast;
2. Write a critique of a Wired writer’s editorial arguing that his point about ‘video-podcasting being too difficult and costly for amateurs to make’ is wrong, and send it to him by e-mail;
3. After that Wired writer automatically adds you to his mailing list to boast about publicize his podcast, write him an e-mail asking to be removed, adding “I sent you one e-mail, but never asked to subscribe to a newsletter“;
4. Continue criticizing Wired’s sex blog author intermittently on your video-podcast, especially as she is invited to speak at Internext amongst a panel of really good bloggers.

Stir these ingredients together in a large metal bowl and read Wired’s “ultimate” guide to online video to see yourself not included in the guide. Ultimate, indeed… they didn’t even put Bre Pettis’ I Make Things in their guide! Oh well, at least Al Gore’s got a good article…

Above: Steve Garfield’s finger

“I’m so excited… and I just can’t hide it” - The Pointer Sisters

What a week this has been. Last week I heard over the Yahoo Videoblogging Group that Kitkast had been mentioned in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine (issue #999, 4 May 2006) and today I couldn’t feel more alive with enthusiasm. Although I’m dead tired from moving this weekend, the excitement of the article and all the stuff that’s coming together for Galacticast are keeping me going.

Other vlogs mentioned in the Rolling Stone article are Vlog Soup (by one of my favorite people, Steve Garfield), Ask a Ninja (Muldor the Firedox’s favorite vlog) and Rocketboom (the only vlog I never miss).

Article - Vlog Stars: Online video bloggers are redefining the worlds of news and entertainment

Yesterday I posted the teaser for Galacticast (web site coming soon) and all I can say is wow… It’s only been 24 hours, but the response we’ve gotten so far has been amazing.

In case you haven’t seen the teaser yet, the new show will take the style and heart of old b-movies and mix in some present-day comedy. I was interviewed about the change from Kitkast to Galacticast yesterday at Loaded Pun in case you’re interested.

We have already received some e-mails from people interested in being field correspondents and I couldn’t have found a better crowd. If you too are interested in being a correspondent, please send us an e-mail at galacticast at gmail.com

Although the show will be launched in the next couple of weeks, you may pre-subscribe to the Galacticast feeds as follows:

Quicktime: http://feeds.feedburner.com/galacticast
Windows Media: http://feeds.feedburner.com/galacticast-wmv

N.B.: GALACTICAST feeds are currently diverted to KITKAST content. Once the first episode is ready to be published, the feed will be liberated. Please note that the first week of GALACTICAST programming will be aired on the KITKAST feed, so you will have a grace period to decide whether you would like to subscribe.

Up until yesterday morning when I posted Day One of a seven day vlog series in honour of Videoblogging Week 2006, I hadn’t posted any new content for over three weeks. One would assume that my stats had started waning due to a lack of new content, but my statistics had surprisingly showed the contrary effect.

I honestly don’t know what happened last week… perhaps someone like Adam Curry mentioned me on his show again or something… but what I do know is that although Kitkast is on haitus, I have the largest volume of traffic I have had since mid-October 2005 and the largest number of subscribers that I’ve ever had.

All this traffic couldn’t come at a better time…

On the last day of Videoblogging Week (i.e. Sunday, April 9th, 2006), I will post a video with a preview to my new show. This is where I will announce the type of content, the format and the name of the new show and air some teaser clips in the hopes that my current audience will subscribe and follow me to my next project.

I was considering making an interactive link during the preview so that anyone can click on the screen to subscribe in iTunes (92% of my audience subscribes in iTunes), but I found out that although the fancy schmancy links work when embedded on web sites, iTunes has blocked the interactive links on their own system. As a result, it seems I’ll just have to tell the audience to “watch out for it in iTunes” or “do a search for it in iTunes”, etc.

Big Brother Steve Jobs is watching you.