" As for the cultures and behaviors in the various places - posting a video on your own site is like setting up a showing in a theater. Posting a video on

You Tube is like setting up a projector and an amplifier on a random street corner." --Brook Hinton

"When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset. There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood." --Rick Rubin

"Videoblogging is still show and tell, but it seems like the showing is increasingly being broken from its telling. The showing is what marks the individual moments of our own lives. But it is the telling that connects those moments to the larger ongoing Tale of us all. The Long Tale." --Will Leurs

"Raw, unencumbered capitalism devalues human beings. Every single moment on the planet, from here on out, human beings are worth less. We are in a post-industrial age. We don’t need as many of us as we once did." --David Simon

"Well, and you know, we've talked about videoblogging for years like it's separate from TV / the TV industry / Hollywood / TV news and everything that's so awful about those worlds. But we aren't separate.

We are just the new technology and flavor. Hopefully talented people with great intention will find more agency to make their own dreams, authentic artistic dreams happen in online video -- but mostly the same crap (money / fear / racism / xenophobia / bullshit / bureaucracy / commercialism / "the bottom line") that made television so bad is going to make internet video just as bad. The people who

came up with shitty ideas for shitty television shows are the exact same kind of people who are making shitty vlogs. This week, I'm feeling like it was naive to ever think that somehow "we" would be different. That somehow the vlogosphere exists in a different world than the rest of the media industry. We don't. We aren't. There are good people in Hollywood who make shit because they can't figure out what else to do / how else to make things happen. There are good people in Hollywood who make great stuff because they do figure out how to work the system, and they stay true to their artistic visions. And there are a lot of people who could give a crap, just as long as they are making a buck. The "vlogosphere" is exactly the same way. It always has been. I want to shift my attention from hoping or expecting things to be better, to finding ways to navigate the landscape with grace." --Jen Simmons