The Amazing Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Economy: "But a number of factors are coming together to empower amateurs in a way never before possible, blurring the lines between those who make and those who take...Bloggers, those do-it-yourself journalists, showed big media that the barriers to entry (like owning a printing press, say) didn’t much matter. Podcasters took radio into their own hands, creating audio shows and putting them online. Amateur music producers, using software that was once the province only of major labels, invented mash-ups: combining songs into totally new ones, then giving them away or selling them."