Famous First Words

I'm hoping this inaugural Parker's Post will foremost be interesting to the writer, for if it's not, what's the use. Let's hope we'll both find use in this by the end of the 500 characters.
I was recently reading how much the avenue to being famous has changed in the past decade. Used to be, if you were famous you either created something that we all either loved or made fun of, reached some high ranking post, had some talent that most mortals didn't, or shot somebody famous. Those were the days. Now, it's a bit easier to reach the stratospheric levels of name recognition. All you have to do is be a regular Joe or Jane who does something crazy that can easily be viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on Youtube, or get on a reality show that's based on doing something crazy. Is it fair or right that Paris Hilton or the current wacky lackluster singer on American Idol has more name recognition than the team of scientists who broke the code for polio? Of course not, at least on the plane of intellectual thought. But the difference lies in the purpose. A contestant on Survivor is in it for the face time as much as the million dollars. The polio folks: the love of science, humanity and tenure. Me? Considering I don't have test tubes or beakers, or a million dollars, well, I'll be making my own reality show appearance here. It's the new media megaphone: keep talking, posting, tweeting, texting or blogging and finally someone will think you're famous.