I recently read a fascinating article by beloved industry journalist and sometimes pundit Kathee Brewer in which she covers opinions by Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture in which he states the financial crunch now manifesting itself in the death of businesses and banking institutions worldwide virtually guarantees the death of free content on the Web. According to Keen, the demise of the free model of internet content should not be mourned, because it’s part of what got everyone into such a mess in the first place.

In short, what Mr. Keen seems to be saying is that the current worldwide economic meltdown will result in the end of "free porn" and return our industry to past levels of profitability.

This seemed like a rather hopeful notion, so I sent along Kathee's article to old friend, neighbor and top-flight business and economics writer, Geoffrey James. Here is what he shot back to me:


Hi Colin:

Actually, I have a different take altogether.

The "free" community of bloggers and so forth are exactly like the letter writers of the Victorian period. The fact that they write on their own gives them a greater appreciate for good content, most of which is going to created by professionals. What's more, the free content providers create link clusters to the good content, which in turn makes it more popular.

That's what's happened to my Sales Machine blog: which is growing by about 10k to 15k hits a month and is well into the six figures in terms of hits.

This has nothing to do with stolen content, of course. I'm talking about free content.

The analogy would be amateur BDSM sites don't compete with Wasteland and other premium content sites, but instead should "feed" into it. The amateur stuff creates a demand for the professional stuff. Piracy screws up the equation, but that's another issue.

The issue of web advertising is another factor connected to the value of content. In the past, it was impossible to tie content to advertising revenue because there was no "click-through." As a result, there's been a "mad men" situation where the value of advertising is assumed, and the value of content is simply to drive circulation. With the Internet, however, the value of an advertisement is immediately quantifiable and what's been discovered is what most sensible people knew all along, which is that advertisement is a terrible way to generate new business.

The ability to quantify the value of content is forcing a massive readjustment of priorities in marketing budgets and causing marketing professionals incredible pain as they adapt to the fact that they're not "mad men" but the guys who have to do the donkey work of the sales organization. (The sales guys always knew that advertising was crap, but nobody ever listened.)

I think it's ridiculous to think that the economic meltdown will have any effect whatsoever on any of this, other than generate more blog entries.

Geoffrey

So, point, counterpoint.....;-) For me, the jury is still out on how the current economic crisis may effect the adult industry, and what long-term role free content may play in profitability, but I'll just continue to keep my ear to the ground and move around the chess pieces accordingly! (hmmmm... haven't we all been doing exactly that since 1995?)


Colin is CEO of the award-winning network, wasteland.com. Since 1994, he has been a leader in the adult industry, speaker/moderator at dozens of conferences, writer for industry trade publications and websites, and innovator in most aspects of our ever-changing place in the market. Find out more about him and his role in adult entertainment on the web at Spicecash.

Look at me! I'm Kiko Lee!!!!!

This is just too funny in retrospect. Found this archived interview today on Google from 1997 when I was interviewed on Naughtychat.com, in my personae of "Kiko Lee" - beautiful Asian model that in the early days, was the public voice for Wasteland.com (it was actually me, a hairy old dude sitting in his underwear in the basement!)

Here's the interview transcript. Read it and weep with joyful tears of how easy it was a short 11 years ago to spin things and build community in that kinder and gentler time on the net...... Wow! did we REALLY only charge $49.95 per year with no recurring billing?????? LOL

Original Interview transcript at http://web.archive.org/web/20011007202916/naughtychat.com/events/kikolee/

Colin

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Kiko Lee 11/25/97

This is an edited transcript from a moderated discussion with Kiko Lee on Tuesday, November 25, 1997 at 10PM ET in the Naughty Chat Auditorium. The event lasted a total of about an hour and fifteen minutes, after which Kiko entertained and chatted casually in the Bound to Please Dungeon.

Moderator: Hello, and welcome to NAUGHTY Chat's second live event! We have with us today a special guest whom many of you are familiar with. She's the design director of Wasteland, an online BDSM commercial site. She has her own web page, at http://www.wasteland.com/kiko/, where she explores her interest in BDSM and the Kama Sutra. And now, without further ado, we're pleased to present Kiko Lee!

KikoLee; Hi - Kiko here! Thanks to everyone for coming, and to NAUGHTY Chat for having me by. This promises to be a memorable evening for all. (Just don't drop your keys - you might get spanked!)

Moderator: Okay Kiko, let's get the first question from the audience.

Moderator: Laura asks, Do you find running a BDSM site exciting? Do you worry about getting busted?

KikoLee: Yes - it's always a stimulating and fascinating experience. Between working with the photographers, film makers, authors and those involved in power exchange policitcal activism, there's never a dull moment. As for the legality, all of our material is legal in North America and most of Europe, so this has not been an issue.

KikoLee: smiles.

Moderator: Rugr9 asks, Why BDSM and the Kama Sutra?

KikoLee: Actually, it was a creative lark! I had been publishing erotic and fetish photography on the net for years and needed something fresh. I think that combining these two very different cultural traditions has surprised many people (I like shock and confusion.)

KikoLee: grins evilly.

Moderator Bethany1 asks, Is your interest in BDSM financial or pleasure? If both, which draws you the most?

KikoLee: My main interest in BDSM and fetishism is from the photographer's lens - hence PLEASURE! I have worked in a lot of media in the past and find the use of the human body in bondage and restriction to be one of the most dramatic subject matters I've ever dealt with. Also, I occassionally like to go to BDSM play parties as they are very fun and you meet some very genuine people there!

Moderator: Mckiso asks,Are you still attending NYU?

KikoLee: I am just finishing my thesis this semester (and probably next as well) which has allowed me to move back home to the Boston area. I love this area -- New York is a great experience, but I find the ocean and mountains to be very sensuous and calming for my creative work.

Moderator: Cory asks, What could a first-timer expect to enjoy from a bdsm site?

KikoLee: Probably the images. Yes, there are a lot of 'adult nudity sites' out there, but for some reason, bondage leaves a lasting impression (no pun intended) on the viewer. This also depends on the type of site -- they range from graphics intensive to FAQ's and how-to guides.

Moderator: Jal asks, You have really nice photos on your site. Where can I find more like these?

KikoLee: Not to be a shameless self producer, but Wasteland is where all of my graphics come from. We contract photographers such as Todd Friedman, Craig Morey and many other very talented photographers.

Moderator: Ah, Todd Friedman, he does excellent work. we have a page showcasing some of that work at NAUGHTY Chat, at http://naughtychat.com/events/toddfriedman/pictures1/ -- but I digress. The next question Kiko...

Moderator: Titqueen_97 asks, How did you get an interest in BDSM?

KikoLee: I was about 19 years old and had just moved to New York -- I had been dating a man at that time that introduced me to erotic power exchange, and though it was just between us at the time, I found it to be one of the most trusting, loving and orgasmic experiences I had ever had. The rest is history.

Moderator: ShyKris asks, How did you first get connected with Wasteland, and how do you like it so far? By the way, you do great banners!

KikoLee: I was home last X-mas visiting my family and went to a scene party. At the party I met the couple who are the managing editors for Wasteland. Interested in what they were doing, I volunteered to do a short photoshoot and put up a gallery of 'Boston coeds in bondage' (sort of a concept piece!). They liked it so much they continued to give me new projects, and over the past year I have become their full time design director (I even get paid!!!!).

Moderator: Cory asks, Which do you find more fulfilling about the Karma Sutra: the physical or the spirtual side?

KikoLee: Actually, the mystical side. As the Kama Sutra comes from the same esoteric traditions as tantra, I find this to be a very deep and complex area of study. If you work with it, it can be truly transcendental -- particularly if combined with some forms of power exchange and restraint.

Moderator: Sogetsu asks, What sort of activities do you like to do on-line besides web-surfing and web-page design?

KikoLee: Good question! Actually, I spend so much time on the web doing my sites that when I'm done all I really want to do is curl up with a good book, or a good lover, whichever is available at the moment!

KikoLee: grins evilly. Moderator Slamet asks, As a BDSM lover, do you prefer being object or the subject?

KikoLee: Primarily, I like to be the photographer and choreographer, but if I read your question right, I am a dom.

Moderator: Mckiso asks, Is Kiko Lee your real name or a name you picked up later on? Also, how did you get a name like Lee from your background?

KikoLee: Actually, it is my father's name that he took when he immigrated to the U.S. from Japan -- he had a very difficult Japanese name, and Lee seemed to be both common and acceptable, so there it is -- I am suddenly Chinese!

Moderator: Mckiso asks, Are you married? Where would you like to go after this?

KikoLee: I am single and am going out for a martini after the show (tee hee). Just kidding -- I hope to make a living as a graphic designer, freelance as well as progressing as a photographer (artsy).

Moderator: DoME asks, I'm a GAP model how would I go about getting into porn of any kind?

KikoLee: This is a tricky business -- I would recommend that you find a reputable photographer to do a nude portfolio, and then use that portfolio to approach a reputable agent (an oxymoron perhaps?). If you want, send me a bit of e-mail and maybe I can give you some direction in this matter. Please do, however, be very careful. The adult industry is very unforgiving if you are not prepared for it.

Moderator: What is your e-mail address, Kiko, for those interested?

KikoLee: Oops! My e-mail address is kiko@wasteland.com.

Moderator: Cory asks, Do you make live apperances? How can we get your schedule?

KikoLee: No, I am not a live performance artist. I do occassionally have gallery hangings of my photography and multimedia and keep a posting of this schedule at www.wasteland.com.

Moderator: DoME asks, What exactily is BDSM?

KikoLee: Short for bondage-discipline / sado-masochism, it's more commonly referred to by people involved as 'erotic power exchange'. In this, two or more people commit to a set of rules, and within this structure, explore the boundaries of trust, power release, pain, submission and mature use of power.

Moderator: Bethany1 asks, Can you explain why pain in the correct way can be pleasure and stimulating?

KikoLee: It has a lot to do with adrenaline and seratonin highs -- this type of activity stimulates certain brain hormones and can literally take you out of your body if the build-up is right and the partner is handling the situation in a loving and pleasurable manner.

Moderator: Hetch asks, How did you finally manage to transfer all you stuff from your old drive to your new one?

KikoLee: I take it you are referring to our move to a new server! YIKES! It was a real project. Most of the data was downloaded directly over a T3 fiber optic line, but there was so much stuff there (about 3 gigs) it still took about 2 days.

Moderator: Sissyman asks, Does your site deal with BDSM in all possible gender combinations?

KikoLee: Yes! Though the main focus is fem-dom, I like to feature all possible combinations of loving.

Moderator: Guest313 asks, When did you become aware of the Kama Sutra?

KikoLee: I read the Kama Sutra first when I was about 16 years old as a 'pillow book' (old Asian tradition which mothers use to introduce their daughters to sex). I was fascinated and have always liked its images. Also, it gave me the 'one-up' on many a young men when I first became sexually active!

KikoLee: grins evilly.

Moderator: Mckiso asks, Regarding a previous question. To clarify, I meant what is your career goal after Wasteland?

KikoLee: I hope to establish myself as a freelance graphic designer as a base, and try to do as much erotic and art photography as possible as a creative focus.

Moderator: ShyKris asks, Is any of your photography available on the Wasteland site?

KikoLee: Yes, I have several galleries there -- mostly gothic and black / white artsy images.

Moderator: Nycman37 asks, Where do you find out about bondage in NYC?

KikoLee: I would first and foremost recommend that you contact the Euginspeil Society for their calander of events. They are one of the oldest and largest organizations in the country and publish a regular newsletter that lists many functions, parties and scene clubs in the area. They have links all over the web -- if you can't find them, drop me an e-mail.

Moderator: Mckiso asks, How long you planning on staying with us? I wish you could just come into the normal chat so we could chat like everybody else...

KikoLee: I plan to drop by the 'Bound To Please Dungeon' after this event for a bit. See you there!

Moderator: ShyKris asks, How much of your day is spent on answering email?

KikoLee: About 2 hours every morning over coffee. I get about 200 pieces a day and try to answer each one with as much personal attention as I can.

Moderator: Guest341 asks, How do you avoid rope burn?

KikoLee: Vaseline and vinegar! I'm not kidding! Use Vaseline to get the skin moist before bondage, and vinegar afterwards to reduce swelling and skin irritation.

Moderator: Sogetsu asks, What do you like to read, who's your favorite author?

KikoLee: T.S. Elliot is my favorite poet, and lately i've dropped into pulp fiction as my main source of prose.

KikoLee: frowns.

Moderator Joe9 asks, Earlier you mentioned BDSM parties. How do you get invited to these?

KikoLee: Generally, you find a 'public event' sponsored by a local BDSM club -- these usually take place in a bar or club. Once there, you meet people and 'get into the loop' -- this usually resulting in an invitation to a party.

Moderator: Guest341 asks, Any plans to visit Paris soon?

KikoLee: I love Paris in the spring! Actually, I am planning on being in Germany next summer and will likely spend a few days in Paris on the way back! (love your city!)

Moderator: ShyKris asks, How much of a crew do you have working at Wasteland?

KikoLee: There are 6 full time people here to publish the 'zine, 6 part-time folks doing links and such, 5 associcate authors, 7 photographers and 3 guys who beat on the server to keep it running. It's actually quite an operation now that I think about it!

Moderator: Mr.Quality asks, Where do you draw the line between visual interest and personal limits in bondage art?

KikoLee: When I am doing a photoshoot or choreographing a piece of performance art, the boundaries are very strict. On the other hand, with friends things are, well, friendly!

Moderator: Mckiso asks, You said you are a 'dom'. Your pictures are mostly woman as subs. Have you ever been a sub?

KikoLee: I have experimented with this a bit, but the hat just didn't fit -- I found myself breaking out in laughter too much and it tended to get my partners angry!

KikoLee: smirks. Moderator Sogetsu asks, T.S. Eliot, hmm, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws..." Is the Wasteland named for his poem, "The Wasteland"? (I prefer W. B. Yeats myself, though...)

KikoLee: Yes, it is named after the poem! You win some sort of prize for that literary reference Sogetsu!

Moderator: Guest341 asks, Have you ever been physically hurt (or emotionally) during any of your BDSM experiences, and if so how do \ you hope to avoid this in future?

KikoLee: No, I have never been hurt. Once, I had a good scare when experimenting as a sub, but this has not ever really been an issue. When you participate in a bdsm 'scene' it is always talked through and agreed upon prior to beginning (sometimes, there is an actual written contract to keep things VERY clear), and as the entire thing is based on trust, it's generally a great experience.

Moderator: ShyKris asks, Are all of the photographs in Wasteland produced 'in-house' so-to-speak?

KikoLee: No, most of the photography is done by photographers we have contacted for specific projects. We do a lot of 'in-house work' but really like to keep the variety of using fetish and erotic photographers from different parts of the world and artistic perspectives.

Moderator: Mckiso asks, A written contract for sexual contact with someone you care about? How does this work?

KikoLee: In a nutshell, it defines what is and what is not acceptable during the session. It also defines nonverbal signals that the sub, or 'bottom' may provide to let the 'top' know that it is time to slow down, pause, or increase the intensity.

Moderator: Mr.Quality asks, Do you think India's sexual practices are given a bad name by less refined bondage displays?

KikoLee: In reference to the Kama Sutra? You have to remember that this was written in a very differenent cultural and spiritual context and, at the time and place, was very 'high minded'. Now, however, you can very easily mistake it for cruel sexual domination of women.

Moderator: Sogetsu asks, I think it is interesting that you like to be a Dom. Do you think that people who like to hold the whip are 'type A' personalities, generally?

KikoLee: Yes, I think that would be a fair assessment -- type A's with a feel for timing.

KikoLee: laughs. Moderator Sugardaddy_o asks, What nationality of Asian are you?

KikoLee: Nationality... half Japanese, half Indian - I came to the U.S. as a young girl, so i guess the answer is 'mutt'!

KikoLee bows gracefully.

Moderator: Okay, I believe that's all the time we have for this evening, but I'm sure many of you are curious about the contest! What are you giving away, Kiko?

KikoLee: A one-year subscription the Wasteland, retail value $49.95 (eek! it is x-mas time - date with kiko not included...tee hee)

Moderator: Excellent prize, Kiko! Okay, to enter the contest, you need to answer a little trivia quiz. To enter, go to the URL http://naughtychat.com/contests/kikolee/.

KikoLee: Ok, I'm off to the NAUGHTY Chat dungeon now -- follow me over if you'd like!

Moderator: Thank you for joining us tonight Kiko, it's been a pleasure having you speak tonight!

Everyone: applauds KikoLee fervently.

Moderator: That's all for tonight folks, thank you for joining us!

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Colin has since taken off his Kiko dress and now simply runs Wasteland.com, one of the only bdsm sites left that don't look like everyone elses! Affiliate Program at Spicecash.com for anyone looking outside the box.

Hmmm.... It would appear that about half of the DVD replicators and duplicators serving the adult industry have gone out of business in the last 6 months. Is this a sign of the times? One duplication house I talked to that was still in biz attributed this to Toshiba cracking down on licensing. Sounds like a good marketing angle, but is it true? Inquiring minds want to know!

Over the past year, we've all seen the huge increase in adults sites offering HD video content. It started out with promises on paysite tours that the 720p videos await in the member's area. But, as with all "mission creep" in our highly competitive industry, HD clips are being generously offered as free promotional content by almost every major program.

So, this now leads to a somewhat ironic parallel between the DVD war between HD TV and Blue Ray formats, and the quandary of which encoding platform to offer on the web: WMV HD or Flash?

Pros for WMV? Surfers like them because they can download them!

Cons for WMV? File sizes are huge and there continues to be a substantial player failure rate if the surfer doesn't have exactly the right codecs. Oh, and let's not forget the pesky Mac issue: Quicktime for Mac will not play WMV's without the end-user finding and installing Flip4Mac.

Pros for Flash? Although some surfers don't like them because they can't download them, Flash has an extremely high penetration rate on both Windows and Mac machines and if the videos were encoded correctly, they play flawlessly. And let's not forget about the file size saving of up to 50% over WMV with no loss in video quality.

Cons for Flash? Well, anybody that has tried to encode in Flash will know that processing time is deathly slow! Average 1:9 time ratio, which results in a one hour film taking 9 hours to encode. YIKES! Oh, and not to forget that if you put them in the member's area instead of downloadable WMV videos, cancellations and complaints will result in biblical proportions!

Wasteland.com offers both HD formats, depending on the site purpose (i.e. free sites get Flash only, member's area get both) and, although time consuming and bandwidth intensive, seems to strike a good balance.

So, now that these XBiz blogs have added the fun feature of you being able to post comments, pipe in with your experience and opinions!

Spotted Quentin's blog posting about this topic today and followed his link over to GFY to see what all the buzz was. Very interesting thread on a lot of levels, so I thought, as one of the veterans of the bdsm content industry, I'd add my two cents....

Shooting BDSM is a very different thing than the rest of adult erotica. The first and most obvious difference is that the entire goal of each scene is to produce pain and psychological/emotional submission. Sure, sometimes there is sexual activity, but the true heart and soul of a bdsm scene lies within the psychodrama of what we call "Erotic Power Exchange".

This can lead to some occasional difficulties when working with models and actresses that are not "into" the bdsm scene. These can range from not being able to leave any marks on the model because she is booked the next day for a glamour shoot, to discovering on the first spank that she has very little pain tolerance and really is not a good candidate for performing a realistic bdsm scene. And then there is the emotional issue. Models with little experience in bdsm play can at times have deep feelings come up when being punished or humiliated in a scene.

For these reasons, over the past 12 years of shooting for Wasteland, we have always tended to work with "lifestyle" bdsm players that know exactly what they are doing, and enjoy every minute of it.

My advise to any new folks that are planning on producing bdsm content is:
1. Hire a very experienced Dom or Domina to "run" the scene. This is critical, as he or she will know the protocol, and have the experience of how to best work with a submissive for maximum effect;
2. When hiring submissives, try to recruit from within the bdsm community, as well as models that specialize in this sort of activity. This will go a long way in minimizing "surprises" during shooting, as well as get the most intense performance footage for your library.
3. With those two assets in place, scene planning, negotiation, establishing limits and safewords and the rest of the bdsm protocol fall into place very nicely and pretty much guarantees a successful experience for everyone.

Okay, I like Google and YouTube as much as the next guy in line, but I have a little beef this holiday season...

Every Christmas, I have enjoyed the Norad Santa Tracker on http://www.noradsanta.org/ For years, it has been a nice homespun series of animated movies with real military folks telling us where Santa is over the course of 24 hours. This year, much to my horror, the entire thing has been outsourced to Google Earth and YouTube!!!!!!! If we Americans can spend a million dollars to make a missile to blow up a donkey in a tent in Iraq, can't we continue to fund this great project that has gone on for so many years to the delight of families everywhere? I don't mind outsourcing at all, but this seems to rip the guts out of a grand american military tradition. Producing and broadcasting directly to the children.

My other less important, but still annoying beef is that Queen Elizabeth II is broadcasting her annual Christmas Greeting on YouTube this year. That just seems somehow strange to me. The Monarch of a 1000 year old Empire having her own YouTube "Royal" channel? This just seems wrong in so many ways......

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Colin at wasteland.com

Okay, I get it. In order to get blog traffic, one must actually go visit blogs and send the owner an email to get hooked in.

But, after a month of having my staff trawl the web for blogs that might be great connections for recip traffic to wasteland.com and sssh.com, it's now become pretty clear that about 50% of them have no way to contact them! No email link. No email form. Nada..... One would think that the first thing a blogger would set up in wordpress or blogspot is a link to exchange traffic, but this is simply not the case.

Now, here is the truly odd thing: of the 2,000 blogs we visited, about half of them had no way to contact them, and no links to many other blogs or sites. BUT! Most of them had a Google Page Rank of at least "4". What's up with that?????

Sure, I have blogs going to drive traffic to our sites, but all of this mystifies me. How can a blog written by a social balloon fetish club in Pittsburgh with 2 recips have a higher PR than most adult sites?

Anybody that has a clue is welcome to email me: mail@rowntree.net If you crack the code, I'll send you a fruit basket! (or a balloon) lol.

It's been a long time since I've seen one little addition to my biz model produce instant traffic and conversions, and am so happy that I stumbled across this one. Promises to be a Merry Christmas!

I, like all of the other paysite owners in the industry have screwed around for years with alternative consumer payment options, ranging from dialers (EEEK!) to all of the current alternative billing solutions.

The one aspect that I was just plain STUPID about for all these years was adding more "International Friendly" options to pay out my affiliates. "Check Only" was the rut we were stuck in.

But, late last week, I added Epassporte as a webmaster payment option and, frankly, I've never seen so many international webmasters step up to the plate after a small press release! Fantastic European traffic surge with some of the best conversion ratios I've seen since 1998!

Moral of the story? Look at things from the viewpoint of webmasters not in the good old USA. They have a lot of the really good-converting traffic these days, and really appreciate a simple solution that pays in Euros and doesn't take 4 weeks for a check to arrive and clear.....;-)

I read in one of the adult board articles in the last week the opinion of the author that the adult industry has slipped very, very far behind from being the innovators of new technology on the web, to a stagnant pool of pornographers basically doing the least amount of work possible to make the most amount of money possible.

Having been around since the adult internet started, here is my take on that:

Back in "the day" (1990's to about 2001), our industry basically forged ahead with all new technology for web deployment of content. Remember the early days of "video" on the web? JPG push at one frame every 4 seconds as that's all that the pipe could handle. Chat rooms? Wow! We perfected that! Streaming video in 2000? We invented it! In short, the adult industry created the market for Cisco and the the backbone tech providers to create the technology to deliver porn, and that is a big reason why the internet grew up so fast.

But, here we are in 2007. Mainstream has in so many ways surpassed us. The really cool concepts like MySpace and YouTube now come first, and then are cloned by adult versions.

To make it all just worse, many of the best and the brightest graphic designers, programmers, and other folks we have always relied upon have figured out there is a LOT more money in working for non-adult than we can provide based on the shrinking market share and money that comes into adult. I certainly don't blame them for heading off into mainstream, but it is a growing trend for these guys to sign on to much more lucrative projects than what is offered in the adult world.

So, were do we go from here? At present, we have, in my opinion, a stagnant adult content world as far as the introduction of cool new features, faster ways to deliver content, etc..... Perhaps this is just "the way it is" and at this point, the adult content world can just never keep up and should be proud of what it did to build the internet, and continue to spend five times more to convert the same traffic from any source. The unfortunate result, however, is that to compensate for this, the content offered just gets more and more extreme to set itself apart form "the pack", but invites obscenity rulings every step down this dark path to be "special".

I seriously just don't know any way we can continue to be the "for-front" of technology. But, a few things I DO know:

1. For our current business model to work, we need to get rid of ALL hardcore free content sites. TPG's, hosted movies, etc. Compelling text and banner links and softcore tpg's will do the trick. Sorry, but this is what I have been bitching about for the past 6 years. Hardcore content provided by sponsors as TPG material basically is like giving the cow away for free, including the milk. Let the paysites do their thing to do the conversions. If the surfer jacks off and logs off on TGP content, why would he/she buy a membership?

2. The new version of 2257, if enacted, will pretty much end the TGP game for a lot of reasons. Sure, there are a few TPG gamers that make really good money, but the majority make less than $300 a month and it's just not worth the risk for them to face jail and litigation time to defend the house of cards they are working out of to possibly defend a justice department investigation. So, there goes 95% of that traffic if they bail out. These players can quickly adapt, though, to text links and softcore content if it comes to that.

Sorry to be so glum, but I've been around this biz for 14 years now, and the current state of affairs is bugging me a bit!

Cheers, Colin

Every once in a while I stumble across a fun new feaure in the non-adult web. Here's one that immediately caught my eye as a great and funny time-waster. Click on the movie below to see some adult web industry veterans strut their stuff! (you might have to click play a couple of times to get it to play - welcome to the job-jab beta version. lol)





And if one wasn't enough for you, here's another one, featuring Traffic Dude, Bangwang, Tom Hymes and a few more to pick out in this thrilling horror feature just in time for Halloween!