[OilsNotWell]

Due to the undoubtedly greatly increased number of guests that will be visiting this site from the recent mass media interest, I thought it might be helpful to list a few links that may be useful, and links for which even those not-so-new may find useful. I've tried to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak... I've tried to stick with basic peak oil sites, and haven't listed any alternative energy, investment-related, etc sites...

While I do realize this site does have a link list, it is a bit cumbersome, and perhaps others can add more here that are of a timely nature...

http://www.energybulletin.net/

http://theoildrum.blogspot.com/

http://flyingtalkingdonkey.blogspot.com/

http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

http://policypete.com/

http://energyoutlook.blogspot.com/

http://thewatt.com/

http://peaknik.blogspot.com/

http://gone-to-croatoan.blogspot.com/

http://globalpublicmedia.com/

http://www.peakoil.net

http://peakoiloptimist.blogspot.com/

[Fatherof4]

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')http://flyingtalkingdonkey.blogspot.com/

[WebHubbleTelescope]

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[Fatherof4]

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[0mar]

321energy.com is a great resource for all around energy news.

[biggav]

Thanks for the mention.

FTD / FoF - when you say the rumours of your demise (created by you !) are greatly exagerrated do you mean that FTD still lives ? Or do you mean you've just changed homes to Furl ?

[Fatherof4]

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FTD / FoF - when you say the rumours of your demise (created by you !) are greatly exagerrated do you mean that FTD still lives ? Or do you mean you've just changed homes to Furl ?

[julianj]

And lets not forget

http://www.powerswitch.co.uk

[PenultimateManStanding]

yay, energybulletin.net and kudos to liamj and bart. Gotta visit all these new-to-me sites.

[Fatherof4]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('julianj', 'A')nd lets not forget

http://www.powerswitch.co.uk

[profgoose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('biggav', 'T')hanks for the mention.

FTD / FoF - when you say the rumours of your demise (created by you !) are greatly exagerrated do you mean that FTD still lives ? Or do you mean you've just changed homes to Furl ?

[bart]

Thanks for the kinds words, PenultimateManStanding. The encouragement helps provide motivation when one is sleepy and wife says -- "Get off the computer and come to bed!".
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Idea: a forum for PO journalists, bloggers, etc..

Since a number of PO news hounds have found this forum, I wonder if it might be useful to keep it as a place for us to exchange ideas? We are communicating indirectly by reading each other's blogs and websites, but a forum like this might be very helpful.

What do you think?

[biggav]

I second Bart's idea of keeping this thread open for a place to toss around some ideas - sometimes some coordinated information dissemination could come in handy.

(I suspect most of us read EB anyway - but it doesn't lend itself to conversations)

[PhilBiker]

www.kunstler.com by a big margin.

[OilsNotWell]

Sometimes checking the financial sites related to oil and other resources can be informative in gathering relevant information on the industry...as well as understanding the state of the economy by checking general financial sites. Here are some more, with a smattering of sustainable culture sites:

http://www.roubiniglobal.com/setser/

http://financialsense.com/energy/main.htm

http://geraldk.blogspot.com/

http://www.capitalspectator.com/

http://lobg2.blogspot.com/

http://geopolitical.blogspot.com/

http://ranprieur.com/index.html

http://www.worldchanging.com/

http://newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?name=Ene ... rch=&type=

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=76

http://www.oilandgasinvestor.com/index.html

[Liamj]

oh my god, i knew the # sites was multiplying but this is scary. How does anyone get any work done? I don't anyway, but somebody must
Can anyone remember news before the web? God it was lame, and Jeez, We rock.

Its great to have many windows on the ocean of content out there, format diversity spreads the msg. But as I mentioned on another thread, i think there needs to be an easier way for all these sites to republish same content.
This isn't suggesting any are redundant, just that theres alot of repeat work happening, reentering stories already 'borrowed' elsewhere, essentially wasting ppls time. And in 3, 6, or 18 months, ppl are going to discover their families/bosses want them back, and sites will stagnate and disappear. If we could share the workload better, we'll all be able to do a better job for longer, spend more time checking/improving/searching for content instead of just entering it.

Imagine a single newswire that authorised users (anybody who asks nicely, behaves ok) visit to enter stories they've found and source other news. When see story u like (obviously including the ones you've added), tick a box to have that story fed to your site, on RSS feed prob easiest but could be via carefully formatted email.

Could have a points/reward system for most-added & most-used stories to highlight freeloaders or low quality sources, or not, i don't care myself.
Could have a 'used by' field to show which sites have already used/displayed that story and so reduce redundancy in closely allied sites.
Would require a programmer to make the engine, which i'm not even remotely, but surely couldn't be too hard? (be interested in opinions even just on 'could it be done').

I can't see any downside to doing this except effort of making the engine - from then on everybody saves time, gets easier access to more news and has an instant view of coverage by peers.

[OilsNotWell]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his isn't suggesting any are redundant, just that theres alot of repeat work happening, reentering stories already 'borrowed' elsewhere, essentially wasting ppls time. And in 3, 6, or 18 months, ppl are going to discover their families/bosses want them back, and sites will stagnate and disappear. If we could share the workload better, we'll all be able to do a better job for longer, spend more time checking/improving/searching for content instead of just entering it.

Imagine a single newswire that authorised users (anybody who asks nicely, behaves ok) visit to enter stories they've found and source other news

[adam]

on liam's idea - this is something energybulletin eds talked about a couple of weeks ago.

it's certainly worth putting out there, this idea for a central, fairly content neutral website. (call it energy associated media - eam for now perhaps) the eam site itself would not be intended to be used as a public portal. you would need to log in to view any content stored on it. and we would only encourage admins of other peak oil news websites to do so.

the site would need editors to make sure the content is formatted correctly, and they might remove the odd articles which are completely out of scope or defamatory or otherwise illegal. but for the most part it would be an almost-anything-goes type of arrangement as far as posting articles. the idea is to create a big pool of articles to pick and choose from.

site admins would log into the site and create their own customised rss feeds by clicking an 'add to my feed' button next to wanted articles. each rss feed would be unique to each username, for instance
http://www.energyassoc.org/?adam.rss

instead of adding articles to energybulletin.net, we would add them to this new site and choose them and other articles uploaded by others to be added to our rss feed.

would we store the full text, or just links to original articles? presumably the latter I think. some sites should maintain their own publishing system for full text and original articles. they or others could then place a reference to it on the eam site.

it would seem this method would save us time in the long run and help avoid that stagnation liam is rightly worried about. it would have some disadvantages too perhaps including that if the site went down for any extended period it would stuff up several sites...

but definately something to consider.

adam