"One of the great things about the web [...] is its great DIY ethos, an ethos that results in some terrifically unique, offbeat, maybe even somewhat esoteric content, content that could never be produced or maintained even at the relatively large scale of a local PBS station. I hope Walter is a good example of this sort of content [...].

One of my personal faves: http://www.poissonrouge.com/, a completely self-funded pre-K kids’ site with some of the best interactive content on the web! Sites like this are what make the web truly astounding![...].

Ultimately, there’s something to be said for content that is created for its own sake — ie, content not geared to sell anything, sustain a TV station, build an author’s career etc. Too often, creation for the joy of it is lauded in principle but ridiculed in practice (“You self publish? Gee, you must not be very good!” — just ask James Joyce, Vincent Van Gogh, Franz Kafka, etc about that one!). "