This teenager’s (we are led to believe) video blog is getting an amazing amount of attention. It’s been covered by Business Week.com, New York magazine, NPR, etc., etc.
I finally investigated it for myself yesterday. Now up to 28 episodes, very entertaining, in my opinion. Take a look, but be prepared to waste some time once you’ve started. I would recommend starting at the first episode (“First Blog/Dorkiness Prevails” near the end of the list) and work towards the present, so the story is in sequence.
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=lonelygirl15&page=3
Best wishes,
Jerry
To me, the story doesn’t end with “It’s a fake, alright.”
I’m very much interested in marketing, PR, communications, social trends etc., and I find this whole phenemenon pretty intriguing.
There’s still a lot of mystery in the story as just about all the details of whodonit and whataretheygoingtodonext are still up in the air.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I don’t get the whole blog thing, video or otherwise
At least in the YouTube/MySpace form, it feels completely foreign to a fiftysomething like me.
It seems to be quite routine and natural for generations that grew up with computers, though, to set up these online intercommunication networks via personal pages, blogs, video blogs, etc.
Here, for example are LG15’s personal pages on YouTube and MySpace:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lonelygirl15
http://www.myspace.com/lonelygurl15
Blogs by professional bloggers/journalists and others who follow news and events or specific areas of interest are more understandable to me.
Best wishes,
Jerry
William Gibson dealt with the “Viral Marketing” idea in his book “Pattern Recognition”. I enjoyed the book, but the videoblog idea doesn’t do anything for me. It’s too “individual soap-opera”. Like watching “Coronation Street” fanatically.
I suppose I’m still an old Gutenbergian. What would Marshall McLuhan have said?
Woof! that’s what he would have said. (so’rry, I just
like to say ‘woof.’)
The young woman is pretty plainly an actress.
Well, there you go.
If Arleen misses an episode of East Enders, that’s the main thing that determines whether she’s had an acceptable week.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Heh. Just so. As I read the Guardian article I too was reminded of the Gibson book…the mysterious “creators”, the “birth of a new art form,” the big ad agency…there was even an online forum about the blog. Life imitates Art…somewhat ineptly. Gibson must have gotten quite a chuckle from the affair.