{"id":431,"date":"2006-11-08T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T12:08:56","slug":"youtube-beats-out-vaccine-for-cancer-causing-std","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/2006\/youtube-beats-out-vaccine-for-cancer-causing-std\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Beats Out Vaccine for Cancer-Causing STD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"YouTube logo\" src=\"http:\/\/newkai.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/YouTube.gif\" width=\"199\" height=\"48\" title=\"YouTube logo. This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and\/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos to illustrate the organization, item, or event in question on a non-commercial personal website qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;YouTube, the video-sharing Web site recently acquired by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, beat out a vaccine that prevents a cancer-causing  sexually transmitted disease and a shirt that simulates a hug to grab top honors as <i>Time<\/i> magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2006\/techguide\/bestinventions\/inventions\/youtube.html\">Invention of the Year for 2006<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I got to read in my local newspaper yesterday morning. This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I&#8217;ve heard this week, if not this year. The whole cancer prevention versus entertainment aspect aside, I don&#8217;t even understand the hype about YouTube. Yes, it vastly made it easier for Joe Internet to upload a clip of him attempting to jump off a his roof into his pool, or, more likely, some copyrighted commercial from 1995, but I hardly see it as revolutionizing the internet.<br \/>\nNow back to the real issue: How can a video sharing site beat out something that can possibly save millions of lives? Aside from a potential a potential film clip that attempts to persuade viewers into not committing suicide, I&#8217;d like to see YouTube save one life. In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if it has already cost several lives from people attempting to copy what they see on it.<br \/>\nNext year: The cure for AIDS losing to some new Google innovation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;YouTube, the video-sharing Web site recently acquired by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, beat out a vaccine that prevents a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease and a shirt that simulates a hug to grab top honors as Time magazine&#8217;s Invention of the Year for 2006.&#8221; That&#8217;s what I got to read in my local newspaper yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[279,277,276,278,275,274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}