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Our Standards at a Crossroads

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Behold, there are no absolutes!

Obscenity, we have learned,

is a relative term. The first Amendment stipulates Free Speech, yet concedes it is the community that decides what goes too far and what is safe within protected bounds.

To judge from all the fuss lately, it seems that porn — as we are defining and producing it today — is close to the line. But if the line moves in accordance with community sentiment, isn’t it logical that some types of Adult material become more acceptable, as others become less.

Let’s take a look at two Adult companies that have found opportunity on Porn’s Rear Line — Lightspeed Cash and Smash Bucks

RSS: Advice for Sponsor Programs

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

If you want affiliates to send you traffic:

RSS comes into play as the mechanism through which Syndicators will deliver content to Afiliates, and through which Affiliates will communicate with each other and Syndicate Forward.

While it is already commonly understood and expected that sponsor programs will give you tools and content to help you promote them, the tipping point in that relationship is definitely shifting in favor of the traffic sender.

Here again, RSS comes into the picture, as Sponsors/Syndicators pump billions into affliate acquisition marketing. Production costs rise with audience market share. And audiences are notoriously fickle. This is exactly like broadcast television, during its sponsored hey-day, with a few very important differences… more

The quiet, little BIG idea

Thursday, December 15th, 2005
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While the industry continued its impressive rollout of blogging and RSS related services, including the launch of Spookyblog by SpookyCash, Mr. Skin’s Derek Meklir made a splash on GFY with a quiet little big idea.

The well-regarded Meklir (Skin’s Head of Marketing) was a hit on the adult webmaster Superboard when he offered the famously ravenous egos a heaping serving of kiss-ass. And they ate it up (your humble self included) to the tune of nearly 150 posts at last count. Nice job, Derek.