It feels like yesterday we were reading about Google's $1.6 billion buyout of YouTube, and scoffing at the idea that a nascent online media property filled with America's funniest home videos gone haywire could fetch sucn a hefty sum. Yet since YouTube made online video mainstream, a wide array of video sites have emerged, seemingly riding on the popular site's user-generated coattails.  Surprisingly, or not, many of the newcomers are doing an amazing job attracting audiences, riveted to mind-numbing, frivolous videos as a form of entertainment. More importantly, these sites are attracting a number of users willing to create content that might catapult them to online stardom.   One site, Funny or Die, seems to have found a growing pool of ... [ Read more ]