New media as creative outlet.

One of the best things about new media is all the creative things people are doing, the internet especially is a way for people to easily share their creativity with the world, especially in games, comics, design.

The websites like Kongregate or Newgrounds acts as a sharing site where people or developers can place flashh games and provides a easy method for people give feedback or to donate to developers they like. Previously it was next to impossible to make games and distribute them easily without suport from a producer but with sites like these it it possible for people to produce and improve their skills and even earn money from creating games.

Threadless a website selling t-shirts designed by its users. Designs are submitted and voted on for a 7 day period, if they score high enough the design is put into production and the designer is awarded $2,000, a $500 voucher, a gift bag, and is elegable for a $20,000 best design of the year.

Comics have boomed on the internet. From small simple comics updated daily (Explosm, SMBC, Dinosaur Comics) to long storylines updated less often (Order of the Stick, Erfworld, Templar, Captain Excelsior) it is easier than ever to create and distribute comics.