Ben Brown will be talking about DIY media at SXSW. Here's a preview:
Ben Bown: "The creative work you do on Web sites, even if it's really good, will never get the respect it deserves. Web sites are transient. They're trivial. They're easy to discard. They leave only the faintest of impressions. But a book! A magazine! A manifesto! — Printed at work and stapled together, passed out at the coffee shop in your neighborhood — by virtue of the constituent atoms, it's already more important to 99% of the world's population than your Web site." Link
Derek Powazek responds on The Fray: "I think you're attributing a golden glow to this Offline Stuff that isn't necessarily there for everyone. Spend a few years going broke paying printers with ink stained hands, and you may just run screaming back to the free, cheap, easy web. I guess what I'm saying is, while I agree with your general call to Do Something with all the tools we've got at our disposal, I think that there's nothing inherent in a magazine that makes it more special than a website. Depends on the magazine. Depends on the website. Get it?" Link