the dot connection in new mexico

so i'm completely hooked on flickr these days. i've known about flickr for a few years now but in the past month i've started trying to take a picture a day. and now i'm hooked on making collages...yikes. oh well. i could have worse addictions.

in working on putting together a few web sites -- one for a neighborhood association and another for a group of activists organizing to calm traffic on a few streets -- i've found that i come back to drupal-based civic space labs project for my web content managment package of choice. i think that going with straight drupal migh be a good thing, except that they don't have an easy installer like civic space does. drupal also requires that you do too much manually in a shell, and my web hosting package just won't do it.

Feds May Regulate "Political" Blogs and Other Political Content Providers - The Federal Election Commission is considering regulating and restricting online entities and activities which run to the political, including political blogs and other political content providers and sources...
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i'm so disappointed -- after two years of wanting to create a site like this, i finally got off my butt and did it -- what do you know, the feds are talking to shut'er down. what a slippery slope! access to the other media outlets (like print media, tv, and radio) is already so limited these days. it's limited by who we are, who we know, and what we can afford. it's been suggested that the free expression of ideas and access to free media are the biggest factors that influence the success of a democratic society.