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Victoria Lane, actress, model, and author extraordinaire, is participating in the 2006 LA AIDS Walk on October 16th. I highly encourage everyone to donate even a small amount to support Victoria and the rest of those who are doing kickass things to fight this terrible disease.

To encourage you, here are some hot thumbnails of Victoria:

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AVN Online :: Editorial: 10 myths about adult entertainment laws you need to know

My clients and other persons seeking to enter the adult entertainment business are usually very surprised when I tell them that California is the only state in which persons can be legally hired to perform sexual acts for the purpose of creating photographic or motion picture works. They’re shocked to learn that the same explicit materials sold legally in “liberal” locations like New York, Chicago, and Las Vegas cannot be produced in those cities without the risk of prosecution for violation of state pandering or prostitution laws.

I meant to post this a while ago, but then I forgot. So here it is.

I see a lot of folks who sorta treat starting a pinup/altporn site like starting a zine (for those of you who were older than 5 in the 1990s). Problem is, it’s not, and if you don’t know what you’re getting into, you could be getting into serious financial and legal trouble.

(Via AVN Online.)

From Lockergnome: Microsoft Announces RSS Support: Marketers, It’s Time:

It’s finally official. The next Internet Explorer and operating system from Microsoft will have RSS functionality integrated, thus finally opening the way for mass RSS penetration. It’s time for marketers to wake up an embrace RSS as a standard communicational channel.

I am consistently surprised at how few adult webmasters are utilizing XML-based syndication technologies like RSS, especially in this genre, where your customers tend to be on the tech-savvy side. RSS is an extremely easy way to keep all of your audiences (customers, PR outlets, etc) aware of content updates and important news, and getting a feed going on your site is really easy (if your tech folks know what they’re doing, at least). Very little of the content featured on this site is not distributed via RSS.

Up until this point, you could sorta make the argument that utilizing RSS wasn’t essential, because about 90% of the general computer-using market didn’t know jack squat about it. This announcement, however, ensures that RSS and related technologies will achieve mass-market penetration in short order. Webmasters who do not start leveraging RSS will be at a severe disadvantage in terms of marketing and audience interaction.