DIY Media Quotes

I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.

Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.

I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright typewriter, and I'd try to sell them at school.

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

The alternative to the corporate media is a renaissance of citizen journalism emerging around world - exploring the different avenues that do exist, like podcasts, to tell whatever story you want to tell.

No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

I love the fact that I can make a podcast in my house and tens of thousands of people will hear it. I also like that it's gotten rid of a lot of gatekeepers.

I started making videos when I was, like, seven or eight.

You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

I filmed my first vlog and I think it worked because I wasn't trying to make it work. I was just doing it for my own enjoyment.

When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.

I've always done YouTube myself: everything is written, edited, produced, and promoted by myself.

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it's one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.