Youtube makes 15 minutes of fame a reality

When Andy Warhol postulated that in the future we would all be famous for 15 minutes, he must have foreseen the rise of YouTube. Nowadays chubby kids with light sabres and people doing dirty dances at their weddings can become media stars overnight thanks to the video-sharing giant, but until now those videos have been limited to ten minutes for 'non-partners'. That's ordinary punters, to you and me. Yesterday, spokestube Joshua Siegal announced that the world's...