[rose]

Will the internet go down if no oil? I assume so, I guess we will have to see how it is explained in the game. It turns out that nuclear power is the greatest source of energy used by NYC - or it was in 2005. Still, that didn't help in the blackout.

I found this quote which I liked from a 2005 post:

Quote:

Let me simply state that I am not one of those "head for the hills" type of people who thinks they can completely insulate themselves from the impact of peak oil by founding an eco-village or some type of intended living communities. Rather, I see the answer to peak oil not in each person becoming more independent from society, but rather from forming more local/regional levels of interdependency and self-sufficiency - local energy generation, local food production, local manufacturing bases, communities that are relatively self sufficient for the basics of life.

http://peakoilnyc.blogspot.com/

which has now moved to http://www.nyc.theoildrum.com/

[skywing]

[/lurk]
I'm with you on this, Fictional. - one of the biggest points made by all these oil crash websites is that oil is our main source of power - no oil = no power. I see big chunks of the internet going down as servers are bricked, and they say that J. random isn't going to have light, let alone internet access.

[fictional_girl]

It is made pretty clear that collaboration is one of the main points of this game, which is made pretty clear by the info found by memory of whitness:

Quote:

How real is the phenomenon of citizen journalism? Would citizen journalism have taken off if the Web had been prevalent in the '50s? How has, and is, the relationship of the public and the media changing? How has, and is, the role of journalism changing? What are the dynamics driving citizen journalism and 'user-generated content'? Why has the media sector been so receptive to, and un-critical of, 'user-generated content'?

So, I tried spreading the word about this to the rest of my Earth/Environmental Science class, and needless to say, public school 9th graders have an attention span of 0.2 seconds.

My biggest question is, though, what is the relevance of blogging communities after the oil shock happens. I mean, wouldn't you think people would be spending less time blogging and more time trying to survive?

[chrisjill86]

This may be a stupid question...but is yuckymuck somehow related to gracesmom (sharon)? He keeps calling her "mom" on his and her LJ



yuckymuck
2007-04-17 07:56 pm UTC (link)
lol Mom. She comes by my house at all hours wielding a cattle prod and a graphics CD. S. is always 'sure, go on back, he's just sleeping'... at least you're in NH

[cissmiace]

Re: mPathytest articles

[Sirius B.]

Another Pitchfork Recruit

[qqwerty]

has anybody considered gaming the housing bubble concurrently with wwo?

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big impact in the suburbs with both occurring simultaneously......

[lirath]

mPathytest articles

[imbri]

A couple of friends are building an Earthship. It's a house that's made, essentially, out of dirt, tires, bottles, and glass. It collects water, flushes it through the house in various stages that actually helps to maintain the energy efficiency of the house. And, of course, it uses solar energy. It's so efficient that it's may be possible to not only go off the grid but to create enough energy that you can add to it.

The idea fascinates me and we talked about doing it, but for a variety of reasons have decided against it. It makes me sad, but we're doing what we can to build a house with the smallest footprint possible. Yeah, we're a couple of hippies, but I think it goes beyond that now and leans into practicality.

I'm not one much for doomsday scenarios and, frankly, I'm not all that concerned about a world without oil - necessity is the mother of invention. We've got a strong capitalist society that is incredibly eager to cash in and I'm fairly confident in their ability to see us through the transition. And, frankly, I'm anxious to get off this oil addiction - it's pretty dirty business (both in terms of the Earth and Society) But, it's not just up to the corps, we can and should be doing our part to reduce energy consumption and be as earth friendly as possible.

And, while I'm getting all hippie freak on y'all - have you seen the talk about Second Life and how much energy your Avatar consumes? Tony Walsh of Clickable Culture (and Regenesis & Ocular Effect) wrote an [url="http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/open_letter_to_the_second_life_environmental_council/"] Open Letter to the Second Life Environmental Council[/url] and included the frightening thought that when the Brazilian version launches this week, those Brazilians that use it will be doubling their average energy consumption. What a waste.

(and forgive me if any of this has been posted here already, I've not been following the thread all that closely - just happened to notice Rose's mention of solar cooking)

[rose]

Solar cooking

[DarthBunny]

Morning all - I haven't been around this place or ARGs long, but I've been following this for a little while and think I'm also joining in this one, seems interesting and should finally encourage me to do some real blogging. I hope you guys don't mind me adding everyone I can find to the following LJ & Vox:

http://darthbunny.vox.com/
http://thedarthbunny.livejournal.com/

hope I can help.
Seems like there's quite a few of us involved by now

db

[CaptainZ]

Vox SN: CaptainZ
LJ SN: CaptainZ2005
AIM: Captainz2005

Everyone friend me if you can. im new to Vox and LJ and im havin trouble figurin it all out. Talk to ya later!

[nitefoll]

I've also tried to contact localboy but got no response. Although he seems to be online 24/7 he's not responding to any chat requests.

[lubbarlubab]

The Localboy thing has always seemed odd, because he's always online and it seems like a SN that would've been registered long before WWO began. So I asked him point-blank:

MMOMordy: Is this you who posted on this page: http://worldwithoutoil.org/teamchat.htm?

Localboy: No

That's good enough for me. If anything, it's just a good example of what Jane was talking about when she said that ARGs force people to sift through the real world and try to determine what is useful and what is not. Unless new information comes up, I'm personally calling this SN a dead lead.

[chrisjill86]

Same here...last night I talked with localboy on AIM briefly...he acted as if he was "unaware", and acted somewhat strange. I was going to save the convo and post it but I accidently deleted it....apologies. Today I asked him about 8TSOC and his last response was "Please stop sending me messages"


-I don't know how and if he ties in, or is he calling our bluff? But, I did find a localboy on myspace. Is that unrelated?

-Oh, and I am gonna join some of these LJ's and such as I get caught up!

EDIT: Please feel free to add me to LJ: chrisjill86