random rants and shit

I'm sending this to the heads as well as devel because i don't know who 
is still on the devel list right now.  if you are interested in joining 
us to help out with developing bh in any way, please let us know here at 
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so...

1) what's up with /rant/  ?  I restored the index.html, but it's all 
busted still.  i'm going to take it upon myself to rewrite the module to 
use php/mysql over the next few weeks.  RSS would be a good addition 
also (thanks for the mention aaron).

2) did we lose some/all of our subscribers when the list went down a few 
months ago?  Seems like the list has just died off.  has anyone even 
posted besides a,d,c,j ?  i can't remember the last one.

3) any interest in making the zine happen in any fashion?  one thought i 
had was to build some sort of easy open publishing module that would 
allow anyone to submit articles for consideration, as well as specific 
things (ie. links/images/rants).  this would take the work off of one 
specific person to find everything.

4) what are people's thoughts on creating some pamphlet to pass out that 
would just be like a bookmark type thing that people could have that had 
all URLs of alt-news sources, and that's it. ?  I think this would be a 
great place to start with revamping the main site page.  We could focus 
on this, and offer a printable PDF for people to cut up and pass out 
wherever they may be.

5) are people bored with bh ?  I know we have always been a very 
decentralized org, but i feel that we need some step of leadership here 
otherwise we're doomed to be weak/moderate at best.  i'm willing to 
invest a portion of my time helping with this, as long as we can get 
some consensus as to some duties, projects, timelines.  (i know sounds 
like another job doesn't it.  i do believe it makes a difference 
though).  don't hate me, just give me some ideas.  i dont want to see us 
fizzle.  we are needed most right now.

i have always believed in the power of bh.  let's really focus on 
something that would get some energy flowing here.  hence my bookmark 
idea.  one project we can all support to grow some base.

finally, just wanted to say thanks to everyone that has held this 
organization together over the past couple of years.  we wouldn't still 
be doing this if there wasn't that drive.

happy festivus everyone,

-j

ps. anyone interested in a bh get together this next week in burlington 
or something?  i'll be in VT 19th-26th.  i'd like to try and do 
something.. even a lunch or whatever.  peace.