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A couple weeks back we interviewed Alex Delyle, managing editor of the West Hollywood-based startup The Daily Reel at the Economics of Social Media conference.

Welcome to the LAist weekly tech news roundup. Each week I'll be bringing you the latest, and hopefully most interesting, technology news from around the city, the state, the country and the world. Also, if you have any news, tips or things of interest you want to point out, feel free to drop us a line at: themacist [at] gmail dot com. Ok, let's get to the news: The Bush administration is at it...

- Local Doc prescribed Anna Nicole methadone not only while she was eight months pregnant and also rode with her in the WeHo Gay Parade. My kind of doctor. Think he's single? - TMZ - Does Ashley Olsen live in such an isolated world that she doesn't know that it's no longer cool to call black people "Negroes", call women "toots", or wear fur coats? Leather, fine. But fur? Not so much - CityRag...

As if YouTube wasn't a legal nightmare already, what with profiting off copywritten material, to profiting off of kids beating each other up, to profiting from underage girls dancing around their bedrooms in their underwear to hip hop songs... now YouTube wants to create a million more headaches to themselves by offering to pay those who upload popular videos. On the surface it's a) nice b) smart c) competitive, but what happens if the...

So, this recent outing of YouTube ingenue LonelyGirl15 as a fake was hardly surprising to many of "her" fans, but between that and the more mean-spirited Craigslist sex ad hoax by Jason Fortuny posing as a submissive female (and then posting the contact info from the respondents), we're a bit disheartened at how suspicious we're becoming of everything.

It went from Amélie to The Village The mystery of LonelyGirl15 (aka LG15) is solved. And it's a complete bore: three dudes randomly meet, they come up with a good idea that is LG15, it works (it works really really really well), the mystery around it stirs conversation whether it be real or a marketing scheme and then we find out it was just three dudes who are now represented by Creative Artists Agency....