This identical article was in the WSJ today (W13) w/o LA Times attribution. It was written by Brian M. Carney for the "de gustibus" (about taste) column.
spoiler below ....shh... don't share this outside the group : It's the buildup campaign to "Node 666"... ;) On 9/8/06, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Related to the YouTube discussion, is this story in today's LA > Times, about the identity of LonelyGirl15. Since she started > posting videos on YT in June, she consistently gets lots of views. > Now her "identity" could be a part of a marketing campaign... > possibly for a movie. > > Because LATimes.com requires registration, I've included the first 2 > paragraphs to the story, in addition to the link: > > http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front? > Query=lonelygirl15&target=blendedsearch&first-page-size=5 > > ------------ > Lonelygirl15 appears to be an innocent, home-schooled 16-year-old, > pouring her heart out for her video camera in the privacy of her > bedroom. But since May, her brief posts on the video-sharing site > YouTube and the social networking hub MySpace have launched a Web > mystery eagerly followed by her million-plus viewers: Who is this > sheltered ingenue who calls herself "Bree," and is she in some sort > of danger or, worse, the tool of some giant marketing machine? > > No one has publicly come forward to lay claim to her work, but she > is starting to look as connected in Hollywood as any starlet. Three > lonelygirl15-obsessed amateur Web sleuths set up a sting using > tracking software that appears to show that e-mails sent from a > lonelygirl15 account came from inside the offices of the Beverly > Hills-based talent agency Creative Artists Agency. > > ---------------- > Hmmm, the next Blair Witch-type campaign? > > Mark > www.1trackmind.com > www.TVQuake.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
