youtube videos have also led to being discovered and being offered contracts.

this low budget filmmaker from Uruguay uploaded one of his short films (an experimental sci-fi short film, 5 min long) on youtube and he immediately got offers from Hollywood. He's there right now, I think. Good for him :-]

That video is called "Panic." Here's my post about it including link to trade article and the video on YouTube.

The whole Julie & Julia story, which was ultimately and most recently made into a movie by Nora Ephron leading the charge as writer, director, and one of the three producers.

Interesting to note that the whole shebang begins with the story of one woman's (Julia Childs') journey of writing a book (a cookbook to be precise. Then another woman (Julie Powell) bloggs about working through all the recipes, and then her (Julie Powell) later turns THAT journey she already blogged about into a book that Nora Ephron adapted into a screenplay, which became a movie.

It's a really, really neat example of meta-narrative, micronarrative relationships and the art of narration in general. In my opinion. About inter connectivity through story.

Knowing all this backdrop makes the movie more interesting I think, and a possible must-see.

Shitmydadsays is pretty funny, but I've also thought I could start my own twitter feed based on my father's own out there comments. It's hard to believe that they think they have enough there for a whole TV show.

That's exactly why I started my blog, "Confessions of a Dangerous Screenwriter" (www.monkeyversuskeyboard.blogspot.com, sorry to pimp, but I must).
I'm hoping if I write about my own specs, screenwriting theories & film in general in a forum industry insiders can access, maybe they'll see I'm serious, know what I'm talking about and have unique but commercial sensibilities (again, hopefully).

In any case, if you want to write for the studios, in light of the current spec market for new writers (dead) I don't see any other way into Hollywood unless you have some sort of pre-existing material, whether it be a comic based on your spec, a webisode/series, a blog that shows you're a writer who writes, etc.