Ashton Kutcher preps Blah Girls
You know you've got some buzz going for your conference when you manage to wangle Ashton Kutcher to shill for you via online video. Believe it or not, TechCrunch enlisted Mr. Demi Moore to promote the upcoming TechCrunch50 event on its blog (he's in the video above with co-principal Jason Goldberg). Turns out Kutcher, one half of multimedia production company Katalyst Media, intends to be one of the lucky 50 ventures presenting its wares at the conference next week in San Francisco (I'll be there).
Kutcher also drops some tantalizing clues that Katalyst is getting into the online video space with something called "Blah Girls"; an image from the program is teased at BlahGirls.com, but not much else is known about it yet. At first blush, I'd guess it will be something like a female version of "South Park" given the cutesy animation.
On the one hand, TechCrunch has to be considered guilty of kissing Hollywood ass for letting Kutcher pimp "Blah" when he's one of about a zillion different webisodes out there that will be trying to find traction in the coming months. Is there anything really special about this besides Kutcher being a producer?
On the other hand, Katalyst has to be given some respect; it has more than proved itself in the TV space by generating bona fide hits like "Beauty and the Geek." Perhaps Kutcher has genuinely earned his way into the TechCrunch50.
