So I, apparently a good 6 months behind the times, finally looked into this Lonelygirl15 thing. If you don't want to read the wiki article, basically some people crafted a narrative involving teen lust, the occult, and crazy overprotective parents, and then started doling it out, piece by piece, in the form of Youtube video blog entries by a girl named, cleverly enough, "lonelygirl15". Now, I had heard fleeting mentions of this around the net for the past few months and never really cared enough to follow up on it. But then, last night, she wins a Vh1 award and well, I can't not pursue something once Vh1's endorsed it. I'm kinda pathetic like that.
Anyway, I find out about this, and I'm suddenly a little disappointed with myself... I had an idea just like this in the fall of 2004 when podcasting really started to take off. I even went so far as to record a first audio episode and posting it to openpodcast.org, a site which is now rather defunct... I might still have the notes at home, and if I do I'll post them up when I go back to Ottawa in two weeks... but this is really neat.
I'm not taking credit from them or anything, obviously they followed through on the idea where I couldn't given the tech of late 2004. My inability to scrounge up enough resources to really go for it on the scale of what these guys have done... well, that didn't help either.
So kudos, lonelygirl15, for taking a cool idea and running with it. Seeing your success makes me think my crazy ideas may yet have merit.
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