Now that's why we love the web!
Everybody has his or her own favorites, and there's more than enough to go around.
Some, however, succeed in entering the pantheon of web folklore - Mahir
Cagri, for example, who in wonderful flowing, and broken, English invited
us (years ago) to his web page. I don't know to what extent Cagri continued to
update his site - it's around however, and looks like it hasn't been changed in
years.
Ghyslain Raza is, perhaps,
an inappropriate example here, since he didn't upload his homemade video of himself
performing a sort of Star Wars dance to his own web site. Instead "friends"
of his uploaded the video to a P2P network, and millions saw him in an embarrassing
performance. But Raza certainly "earned" a few minutes of stardom. (The video,
by the way, can be found on numerous web sites.)
Daniel Engber is a different sort of example. He very purposefully set out to
bring visitors to a site - and succeeded (almost) in winning a contest. His
article on the subject, in Slate, is a fascinating, and very enjoyable, read.
And again, there are almost countless others. What seems to be common to them
all is that only shortly after we click over to them, scratch our heads or marvel,
or laugh, or even say "hey, that's a great idea!", we're already clicking
on something else.
Go to: Fifteen seconds might even be a good deal, or
Go to: How many prosumers can fit on the head of
cyberspace?