Hey!, Look at Me!

I read this morning that Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, the founders of the "YouTube" website, have sold it to Google for $1.5 billion. That's one and one half billion, as in 1,500 times one million, US dollars. That is insane. A couple of computer geeks with an idea for packaging and presenting other peoples' content are now each 750 million dollars richer (less taxes) for their little invention. It hit me like never before that the most valuable comodity in our information overloaded culture is attention. Do anything to get it from enough people and you have found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And this is the antithisis of God's most valued comodity: humility - the opposite of pride.