Happy New Year

It has been a good year for The Energy Blog and I hope each and everyone of you also had a good year. We passed several milestones and received some recognition throughout the year. Excuse me for bragging up our successes.

The number of visitors per month to The Energy Blog increased from about 70-75,000 at the beginning of the year to over 100,000 at the end of the year.  Our peak was 105,000 in November, with some trailing off in December due to the lower number of posts. Our advertising revenue increased significantly with Google's purchase of FeedBurner and their subsequent posting more mainstream ads at the end of the top post and in the feeds to the site.

We were recognized by the London Times as being one of the 50 best business blogs. The Cleantech Blog was the only other alternative energy/environmental blog that that was recognized by the Times. It was very surprising, I had no idea that the blog was under consideration.  They didn't even notify me, I read about it on the Cleantech Blog.

The Wall Street Journal started a new blog in their online edition, Energy Roundup. We were mentioned in their initial edition and have been mentioned several times since then.

Best wishes, happiness and good health in the new year,

Jim

Comments

[paddy]

Well done! I read your blog regularly--you are my number one source for news in this area. Keep up the good work!

[Carlos A. Carlini]

Jim, Happy New Year to you and to all the readers!. Congratulations for the recognition. Your blog contents deserves it.

[DaveMart]

Jim, your blog is in my tech favourites - thanks for your hard work to make a commendable site!

[DaveMart]

Jim, your blog is in my tech favourites - thanks for your hard work to make a commendable site!

[DaveMart]

Your blog is in my favourites - thanks for a great site!

[David Grenier]

Venture any predictions for 2008? How high will oil go? What current lab-only products will make it into commerical production? Will high energy prices actually finally drive a drop in demand? Will the government pass any sort of carbon tax or the like? WIll solar-panel efficiency keep increasing?

[stevenchen18]

Good Job, Jim. I have been a regular visitor of your blog.

My son and his friends have just launched a student environment forum few days ago, www.sustainablesocietyclub.com/forums

On the News page, they have sited one of your news, A Solar Grand Plan, already.

Keep up the good work.

[Rod Ruoff]

Jim,

A heartfelt thanks for your efforts on making the Energy Blog so useful as a source of information and exchange.

By the way, you might have already covered it, but if not you might consider having an entry on Motorwind Turbines, the inventions of Lucien Gambarota are discussed therein. Of particular interest, I think, is his interview on PESWIKI, which is linked on this web site:

http://www.motorwavegroup.com/new/motorwind/index.html

Sincerely, Rod Ruoff
http://bucky-central.me.utexas.edu/

[Rod Ruoff]

Sorry, that link got clipped when I submitted my last comment. Here it is in its entirety

http://www.motorwavegroup.com/new/motorwind/index.html

That is, it ends with

/new/motorwind/index.html

[Thomas D. Garven]

All I can say is Happy New Year and keep up the excellent work Jim. You are at the top of my favorites list.

[Dannah]

Very nice! You're doing something right! Keep up the good work. Your blog is great because it's more detailed than most others. You really get to the meat of the issue. By the way, I put a link on my blog roll.

[brian hans]

Jim et al,

Great job. My day feels hollow if I dont get my fix of 'The Energy Blog'.

Keep it up! 2008 will be even better.

[john macklin]

Congratulations Jim. Acknowledges what one man can do to change the world. Best wishes for 2008.

[Don B.]

Kids, Studies, and working 40-60 hrs/wk keep me BUSY! That doesn't leave a lot of time for extraenous reading (let alone BLOGS!)
But I always seem to find time for The Energy Blog!
Keep up the great work Jim!

Don B.

[acakdeniz]

i'm reading your blog since december'07. congrat's from Turkey

[jen_chan, writer SureFireWealth.com]

Congratulations! You're setting a good example for all the other blogs out there. Perhaps more and more energy blogs will pop up in the future. Hopefully, more readers and lurkers find their way here. It's important to spread this sort of information.

[Chan]

Thanks Jim
Congratulation from Taiwan. You do a great job in this blog.
I am a venture capitalist finding the opportunity to invest, especially in energy related segment.

[Oliver Morton]

Jim

Thanks for another year's terrific blogging

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I would love updates to all of this stuff, we've come quite a ways since then on a lot of these topis.

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I'm curious to read that WSJ blog, is it as good as yours?