Lonely Times...

LATimes.com is hot on the trail of lonelygirl15, trying to unravel the mystery of this Internet soap-opera star.

While at first glance indistinguishable from the vast debris fields of similar video blogs, the lonelygirl15 cycle has proven the uber-online confessional. Whether it is the superior production values of the video, or the endearing/irritating (depending whom you ask) traits of its star or the gradually unfolding soap opera between the leads, Bree's is the face that has launched a thousand replies, with imitators, satirists, critics and debunkers falling over themselves in a mad frenzy to comment on the videos. Adding to the madness is a heated, nearly violent debate over whether the videos are authentically the work of a lonely teenage girl living miles from civilization ("three hours from a mall" she claims) or a stage-managed Internet fraud.

I was first made aware of lonelygirl15 by Maxx (who also told me about geriatric1927. I am very interested to see where this will go, cause it sure as hell ain't the diary of a 16-year-old naif.

Further reading
Wikipedia entry (back up after having been taken down for some time.)
New York Magazine article: Hey There, Lonelygirl
ARGN article: LonelyGirl15 - Is She or Isn't She?