Conspiracies!!

Hmmm.. we all love a good conspiracy, and since I have been exploring the wonderful new ways people are communicating ideas and broadcasting, I have come across a couple!

Well.. I'm not sure if I would call them conspiracies as such..

Anyway. I'm talking about fake people.

Not robots, or monsters... no these kind are the invention of - well, that's the mystery.

Let me try to be less cryptic.

Lonelygirl15 http://http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=lonelygirl15 and LucyinLAhttp://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LUCYinLA. Now I'm convinced that LonelyGirl is a fake, but I'm not 100% sure about Lucy. You'll find them both on YouTube and MySpace, peddling their videoblog wares....

Lonelygirl is a real soap opera with some bizarre cult stuff thrown in for good measure and LucyinLa is, well, kinda typical American girl trying to make it in Hollywood - hardly original. But she is very pretty in a girl next door kinda way and enthusiastic. Still some folks seem to think they smell a rat.

I just couldn't give a rat's arse - it's just entertainment. You can check it all out for yourself, but be warned! It's highly addictive!

But it does seem to be the future of broadcasting - or at least part of the future.

Lonelygirl has had hundreds of thousands of people view her videos, likewise Lucyinla. And they have created a real buzz - mostly as to the authenticity of their heroines. But could this be the future? Short online "webisodes" in bite size chunks, of soap operas / dramas / magazine programmes etc. It would seem the appetite is there.

Hmmmmmmmm

Tell me what you think.