The second Peak Oil webring

The original Peak Oil webring was started by a guy calling himself FatherOf4, to put together a list of energy-related blogs. Perhaps he saw my attempt to put up my own little list. Or perhaps it was just a good idea at the time since, incredibly, there wasn't any prior effort at this other than a few blogrolls here and there. It became quite popular and noted peak oil sites like peakoil.com and energybulletin.net joined up as well, even though strictly speaking, they weren't exactly blogs.

FatherOf4 himself kept a blog called Flying Talking Donkey. He would post links to peak oil news and articles. Now there was one lean, mean posting machine. Whereas over here at lowem.log, I would attempt to do some sort of news clipping and editing and putting it into context and so on, he would be doing no such thing. He was putting up link after link after link. News aggregation, extremis - fast and furious. As oil went up to the $50's and $60's and $70's, the FTD blog was actually keeping up with the news avalanche - the guy was incredible.

However for some reason or another, in the past week or so, it all came to a stop. The last thing I saw was FatherOf4 putting up a list of all the sites on the Peak Oil webring and saying he screwed up his ID or something like that. I put up a query on the forums - looked like nobody knew what happened as well.

Okay, so I went over to ~~his~~ another blogger, Big Gav's profile and discovered that someone else had also set up a second Peak Oil webring, so I signed up. Whoever's running it is certainly efficient - the activation came within 10 minutes.

And finally, Flying Talking Donkey seems to have been taken over by spammers. Go take a look if you like - flyingtalkingdonkey [dot] blogspot [dot] com. I'm not going to link to it, the curious will have to enter the address in manually. In fact, I have taken it down from my bookmark section and my previous blog entry and would advise all other Peak Oil sites and bloggers to do the same.

Comments:

very good posting....

thank you for that information....

Posted by jim brice on October 07, 2005 at 09:22 PM SGT #

I'm not sure "alter-ego" is quite the right word for it, but I always appreciated the good work FO4 / Tim was putting in at FTD.

He has a newish, not so peak oil oriented blog up at http://deadants.blogspot.com so you can still see what he's up to over there - the only thing constant in his life is change !

Gav.

Posted by Big Gav on October 07, 2005 at 09:25 PM SGT #

Oh - and the new peak oil webring was set up by one of the guys at "The Watt"...

Posted by Big Gav on October 07, 2005 at 09:26 PM SGT #

Oops, thought you were the same person. Obviously, I'm not too familiar with Blogspot's system :p

Posted by lowem on October 09, 2005 at 09:25 AM SGT #

No worries - I guess I have a similarly scattershot approach to energy news.

Tim is in the US and I'm Australian though, so our focus is a bit different...

Posted by Big Gav on October 10, 2005 at 08:56 PM SGT #