Jeremy Charette
03-26-2007, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070326/wr_nm/youtube_awards_dc' target='_blank'>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070326/wr_nm/youtube_awards_dc</a><br /><br /></div><i>"With a virtual drum roll, online video-sharing Web site YouTube on Monday announced the winners of its inaugural awards, paying tribute to the wannabe stars who have used the site as a launching pad to fast fame. The winners ranged from the Chicago band OK Go dancing across treadmills, to a Sydney man who hugged strangers in the street, to an animated video about a kiwi bird trying to fly."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/Treadmill.jpg" /><br /><br />YouTube sure has been interesting. From clips of long lost TV shows, to home videos, to experiments with Mentos, you never know what you'll find. Here's hoping the huge mega-corporations don't ruin it for the rest of us.