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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Creative Commons Photos

By Matthew Yglesias

Sep 17 2006, 4:46 PM ET Comment

As you may have noticed, I've started including images with a lot of the posts here -- one of the benefits of blog-consolidation is that I get to put more time into each post -- which I think is kinda neat. It's also worth pointing out that it would be an utterly infeasible method of operating without the combination of the Creative Commons search page and the Flickr photo-sharing website. The basic idea of Flickr is that you get an account, take some photo's with your digital camera, upload them to your page, and then anyone can see them. Even better, though, the have a function where you can set it to, as a default, release your photos under a Creative Commons license. Then, with the power of untold numbers of (presumably amateur) photographers combined and searchable, a humble blogger has a vast photo library at his disposal.

This is one of those signposts of progress that's essentially impossible to measure, but it's real nonetheless.

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