{"id":886,"date":"2008-01-14T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T02:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2008-01-14T20:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T02:09:35","slug":"fame-and-fortune-on-the-world-wide-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Fame and Fortune on the World Wide Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"noadbriteinline\">\n<p>Okay, maybe just fame rather than fame <i>and<\/i> fortune.  Many have gotten famous because of their videos, though.  Like Chris Rocker for example.  That &#8220;Leave Britney Alone&#8221; video has made it all around the world and back several times.  Oh, and the clip is actually going to be used in one of this year&#8217;s spoof comedy films.  I forget what the title is but I saw a preview of it when we went to see National Treasure 2. (Or was it when we went to see AVPR? I can&#8217;t remember.)  Or even better yet, you could be the next Arnel Pineda.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, more and more people are getting their kicks online rather than watching TV.  Really, with videos on your computer more and more people are going this route for entertainment.  The web can provide hours upon hours of entertainment and if you&#8217;re not careful then&#8230; Well, let&#8217;s just say nothing will ever get done.  No housework, homework, work-work.  No nothing.  Such is the power of these viral videos.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yawpbox.com\" >YawpBox<\/a> is going to start a new TV show consisting mainly of user-generated content.  Here&#8217;s your chance to be famous like Chris Rocker because you can share your video with other users.<\/p>\n<p>TV show hosts Lex and Terry will have challenges where users must create specific content.  Then they will select the best ones and put them on the show.  So now is your chance.  The world wide web is calling.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yqd5qs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/urlbrief.com\/347be3\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/25f2vc\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, maybe just fame rather than fame and fortune. Many have gotten famous because of their videos, though. Like Chris Rocker for example. That &#8220;Leave Britney Alone&#8221; video has made it all around the world and back several times. Oh, and the clip is actually going to be used in one of this year&#8217;s spoof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}