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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (4.00 / 4)

As to your wider point about why we talk so much about America, two things:

this site is a spin off of dKos. Whatever the reason, I started writing for an American audience, and I built a readership over there, and some if it came here;
it is America's administration which has created havoc around the world as we see it right now, and we all worry about how it will end - and it depends to some extent on what happens in Washington. So it's hard to avoid the topic, even when discussion other bits of the world.

But when I describe this site, I say it is about energy and European issues.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 05:34:55 AM EST
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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (4.00 / 2)

You make it sound like you just got a chunk of Kossacks at the beginning of the site, but you also do the bulk of your off-site contributions on DKos still today, so you keep bringing in more Americans than any other group. I don't know what the readership of The Oil Drum Europe is like, maybe things will change a little now that you are a front-pager there.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 06:00:12 AM EST
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Energy and European issues (4.00 / 4)

That is a personal view. Energy is your thing and we are all happy to contribute to the topic with words and action. But to me ET is a dialogue about life in all its different viewpoints, rather than issue-based.

That may seem wishy-washy. It's not. From the SOS POV, our job is to provide a fertile conceptual environment by uniting dfferent expertise. The 'crop' that we grow will be a function of the seeds we sow, the weather and the effort we put into nurturing it.

The issues emerge as a result of that process.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 07:03:42 AM EST
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Re: Energy and European issues (4.00 / 4)

Sorry, Sven, you're right, and i'm glad you bring it up - no, actually, I'm glad you see it that way, because on my own I wouldn't be able to create what you describe, so it is a collective work, and that's way better than just the blog of me writing about the things I know or care about.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 08:06:15 AM EST
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Re: Energy and European issues (4.00 / 3)

This is why community blogs are better than group blogs, which are in turn better than individual blogs.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 08:15:43 AM EST
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Re: Energy and European issues (4.00 / 2)

And, of course, I have the utmost respect for your founding of this forum, and your wisdom in letting it flow.

It has been an inspiration.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 10:13:09 AM EST
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Re: Energy and European issues (4.00 / 2)

and this time I'm not joking ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 10:13:46 AM EST
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