The Oil Drum

The NYT has an interesting story on flame behavior... not a puff piece, but an introduction to the emerging research from the field of neuro-social science. The article is here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yujw8e

It cites a researcher, one John Suler Ph.D. who has an interesting and fairly comprehensive web-site: The Psychology of Cyberspace. It's information dense. It's a well organized online book. And it branches in a host of research findings on cyber group dynamics and cyber group management.

http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html

In other words, there is a growing, and significant, body of peer reviewed research on flame behavior and troll dynamics. There is information on managing and facilitating group discussion, strategies for interventions...

Interesting stuff. It's not peak oil, but it might facilitate peak discussion .