Would you like to make a movie or a music album? Do you ever dream of being a writer or an actor on TV? In the past, you had to work for a big company to become famous, but now you can do it yourself on the Internet. Tom Winkler makes a 10-second long animated cartoon every day and puts 5 lt on his website. Now he is so famous that it has around 9.5 million visits every month. Melissa Shapiro wrote a novel and tried to seli it to publishing companies, but they did not want her novel. She put it on the Internet and people liked it, so now a company has published it. Kathy Fisher and Ron Wasserman recorded some songs and let people download them for free. Now they have a contract with a big music company. These are only a few of the people who became famous by showing their laient on the Internet. Instead of passively watching TV or listening to music, we can all be active artists with a worldwide audience.