I'm trying to accumulate information like a magpie accumulates stuff. Stop me if it needs a good clearout. This thread is for the blogs you like or have come across and would like to share

To each person a post and let them edit it and add their blogs (I know someone is going to jump in now with a super mega website with all the blogs ever in the blogosphere everywhere)

Some I found recently
http://www.cearta.ie/
http://tisiwoota.blogsome.com/
http://forestpolicy.typepad.com/ecoecon/

http://www.crooksandliars.com
is great for keeping up with american news for those with little time.

this is the type of blog i'd like to make
http://olyblog.net/ a progressive guy in a progressive city of olympia in progresive state of washington covers 'hyper' local news about the city, council meetings, protests, figthting city halls clampdown on music venues etc.

http://theclareherald.blogspot.com/2008/04/wood-chip-to-fuel-irelands-energy.html

How did i miss this energy seminar in Ennis ?? They are talking about using renewable forests as a future potential source of energy for clare. Does anyone know if there is a website with a comprehensive list of events on around the place? Something which would also have news of seminars like that above.

That blog looks like a comprehensive Clare update for folks who live outside the county/country and want to keep in touch. I came across it be pure accident. If anyone else had anything like that it would be great.

Energy Blog - Canadian
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/10/ann-arbor-to-in.html

Science Spin - Irish Science and Wildlife discovery magazine
http://www.sciencespin.com/

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Energy Blog - Canadian
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/10/ann-arbor-to-in.html

Science Spin - Irish Science and Wildlife discovery magazine
http://www.sciencespin.com/

That is interesting about the LED lighting. Mostly in Ireland we use the low sodium lighting that is lower in energy use but makes cyclists strangely invisible. But as you know, I am mostly interested to know why do we keep all this lighting on when there are only a tiny number of people about between say 2 a.m and 6 a.m. in the morning?

Safety cactus? Rapists? Wampires an Ghoshts?

Ah...
http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com/

A brother blog !
http://techliberation.com/2008/05/05/more-on-the-oecd-broadband-report/

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Safety cactus? Rapists? Wampires an Ghoshts?

Ah...
http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com/

Nice site/blog: I wonder if they would link us.

Where I live there is minimal lighting at night and we can still see the stars. People walking at night take torches and/or wear luminous stuff. We carry garlic to ward off the vampires and ghosts.

A nice little science forum
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php

Anybody noticed Blogwarrior?
http://fionnchu.blogspot.com/

It's astonishing -- eclectic, informed, high-brow, low-brow, Irish...

Ya gotta love those Californians!

This is a good site ... a bit like the CIA handbook
NATION MASTER

Ireland doesn't look to bad for electricty consumption - we must still be turning off the emersion heater between baths.

Now this is it - the one minute case for everything. Another good idea whipped out from under my temporal lobe ...

http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/category/science/

(there are more categories than science - that's just an example)

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Now this is it - the one minute case for everything. Another good idea whipped out from under my temporal lobe ...

http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/category/science/

(there are more categories than science - that's just an example)

That is a great little idea. No one gets to answer back or add on. Concentrates the mind. We could open a forum for it and lock the thread after the first post.

Should we put a blog feed on the portal or are we overloading it with information? (yeah right) What blogs would you recommend putting on the portal in an RSS button? Each button can only show 7 different feeds so maybe we could be selective about the best blogs.

My first one for a vote is Grandad's "Headrambles"

http://www.headrambles.com

My interest lies mainly in legal blogs (or "blawgs").

Digital Rights Ireland
http://www.digitalrights.ie/

Groklaw (legal news regarding free and open source software)
http://www.groklaw.net/

Lex Ferenda (Irish blog on cyberlaw among other things)
http://www.lexferenda.com/

The Volokh Conspiracy (news and opinion, mainly regarding US Constitutional Law)
http://volokh.com/

I don't know why they all seem to be about cyberlaw. I don't even study it, not yet, I just find it very interesting.

Interesting evercloserunion. We have DRI on the portal, but I hadn't come across the others. Thanks.

You find law interesting evercloserunion? That tv series Damages is also a courtroom drama isn't it? It's amazing the hard stuff that people are into even though they don't study or anything. I don't mean whiskey now, more like a bit of DIY brain surgery at the weekends can you imagine it

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You find law interesting evercloserunion? That tv series Damages is also a courtroom drama isn't it? It's amazing the hard stuff that people are into even though they don't study or anything. I don't mean whiskey now, more like a bit of DIY brain surgery at the weekends can you imagine it

Hehe, sorry, I study law but I don't study cyberlaw. I'm going into second year Law in Trinity. Still covering the core subjects, but I'd like to study cyberlaw later on.

I am into whiskey though, makes the DIY brain surgery more fun

Well I'm going to find blogs with RSS feeds so that's a good range of cyberlaw ones or ciderlaw if it's under a bush drinking at the weekend.

The cyber part of it must still be getting written big style as I said before to johnfas - what is legal and illegal on the web? Sites like this could be breaking copyright or something left right and centre. In fact, notdevsson on p.ie keeps screaming not to print a whole article in a post. Why not? If you reference it then surely it's ok - the publication is giving their news away free anyway. When does it become illegal? Or coyright or whatever?

I just had a quick google for Lara Marlowe's Russian articles for cactus on the Georgia thread and came across this - a blog which keeps an eye on the irish times journalists ..

http://irishtimeswatch.blogspot.com/

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I just had a quick google for Lara Marlowe's Russian articles for cactus on the Georgia thread and came across this - a blog which keeps an eye on the irish times journalists ..

http://irishtimeswatch.blogspot.com/

Perhaps we had better start a blog to keep an eye on it

This isn't a blog, but I'd like if the Alex cartoon in the Telegraph could be linked on the Portal. It's a very funny take on the world of high finance. youngdan, rockyracoon, Squire and so many more would like it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/Alex/pAlexTemplate.jhtml?pTitle=Alex.Telegraph

Don't worry Ard-Taoiseach it doesn't have to be a blog. This one isn't either - it's from some dude, Michael Pidgeon (?) who seems to have whipped our idea for the Party Manifestos panel on the portal

We'll have to replace that panel with a link to Pidgeon's site.

http://www.michaelpidgeon.com/manifestos/ee.html

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Don't worry Ard-Taoiseach it doesn't have to be a blog. This one isn't either - it's from some dude, Michael Pidgeon (?) who seems to have whipped our idea for the Party Manifestos panel on the portal

We'll have to replace that panel with a link to Pidgeon's site.

http://www.michaelpidgeon.com/manifestos/ee.html

Ah, Michael Pidgeon! He's down near yourself in Clare at the University of Limerick. He's a member of the Young Greens and goes by the name of Pidge on P.ie. cookie and him are somewhat estranged.

I would love for Alex to have its own panel like the moon one. I find Alex is great fun and quite apt.