With the new eye-fi card from Yuval's company I have the capacity to instantly publish photos. I looked into integrating this with my world and came to the conclusion that instant publishing to web sharing sites is a good thing for reducing overhead on my side in publishing pictures. I reviewed the policies of Picasa Web albums and Flickr and came to the conclusion that Flickr was a better deal. Flickr offers unlimited file posting (we'll see how they like how many photos I want to publish) and has a free bandwidth restricted model (100MB per month) which is pretty much useless or a "Pro" model where you pay $24/year for unlimited bandwidth to Flickr and unlimited storage. Google/Picasa offer a disk space model where you pay for a block of disk space annually and for about 500GB it looked like it would come to $500 per year. I opted for Flickr's model so they have me locked in for 2 years while I try them out. I figure if it doesn't work out after 2 years there will be a new model by then for how to share what appears to be ridiculous amounts of photos today but in reality is just the amount you can generate with 2GB or 4GB flash cards and easy access to offload them to a network. My limitations are really on the storage local side which for now is about 1TB.

Anyways with all that said I basically started a new photo library at Flickr that I will soon link or RSS integrate with the existing archive I have on my site. The new library will be at http://www.flickr.com/photos/danhousman/archives/ and hopefully it will be self explanatory for how to wander through Flickr to find whatever photo you want to see. One big adjustment for me is that I have had to group photos by date ranges to keep them straight on my side. Flickr can use the EXIF data from the camera to automatically group photos by day so I will try to stop organizing in that way and let Flickr figure out where in an archive to order the photos. One confusing thing for me will be sorting out what a public viewer vs. me the publisher sees. I just don't know what that looks like but I am trying to make pictures public for viewing where I can. The new library picks-up in late January and has most of time through March 4th.