The full list of feeds can be overwhelming. You can search: "RT group:climate-energy" to get only items which have been Re-Twittered (good idea since many of the feeds are Twitter imports). - Peter Efland

since there are search.twitter.com feed imports for any mention of #cop15 you could make a search in climate-energy room for: "#cop15 group:climate-energy". - Peter Efland

Same thing just with Hopenhagen or G8: Since there are search.twitter.com feed imports for any mention of #hopenhagen and #G8 you could make a search in friendfeed for: "#G8 group:climate-energy" - Peter Efland

Remember, when you like or comment on an item you bring it back to the top. So please "like" and "comment" to give greater exposure to your favorite items, for the room members who might not have seen the items you find important yet. - Peter Efland

does anyone know if there's a search feature in friendfeed to remove identical links? - Peter Efland

more search filter tricks: "comments:1 group:climate-energy" - only finds items which has been commented on. - Peter Efland

search filter tips: "likes:1 group:climate-energy" - identifies items which has been liked at least once. - Peter Efland

If you only want to know for example what Andrew Revkin has to say about the climate in his latest news, simply search: "dotearth group:climate-energy" - Peter Efland

You want only the news from NYT: "NYT group:climate-energy" - Peter Efland

Is Kate Sheppard from Grist your favorite climate commentator: find only her posts by searching: "sheppard group:climate-energy" - Peter Efland

btw: direct link to the room here: http://friendfeed.com/climate... - Peter Efland

If you don´t want to see all the tweets, but only get the blog updates, search: "service:blog group:climate-energy" - Peter Efland

Why I chose Twitter instead of simply importing the RSS feed: Many of the blogs in this room could either be subscribed by their blog rss feed or by Twitter profile. I chose Twitter because 1) When you comment on a twitter profile in Friendfeed, you can Cc it to become a reply on Twitter itself - hence promoting interaction more than simply importing a RSS feed. 2) Some of these blogs are also active on Twitter and not just pushing out blog posts - again, promoting interaction. - Peter Efland

Weird: I have notticed that the search doesn´t always show the tweets if you search for individual Twittter names in the room. For example, if I only want to see tweets/items from the Carbonoffsetsdaily blog (Twitter name: CarnonNews) then I would search for: "carbonnews group:climate-energy". However, this search will sometimes only bring items when other items in the room has mentioned CarbonNews and not the tweets of CarbonNews themselves. I thought at first it was a matter of using small/large caps, but I realized it wasn´t. You simply just have to fickle a bit with the search term. If I find the exact search term solution I will update. - Peter Efland

I was thinking whether or not I should include in the room the Twitter searches for #green and #climate. On one hand I thought it would be too messy as these are very popular tags, so other posts would simply drown. On the other hand I realized that a search term for: "-service:feed group:climate-energy" would give all blogs and Tweets except for the custom feeds (which I am using to import Twitter # searches). I still have figured out if #green and #climate would be too cluttered. What do you think? - Peter Efland

Twitter search on #climatechange has now been added. Remember, to get only blogs and individual Tweets, and not Twitter # searches, search for: "-service:feed group:climate-energy" - Peter Efland