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But not everything is bad. Daniel Barkowitz has put together an excellent 4th edition of the Poetry Carnival over at Talking to Myself which you really need to read. Yes, I said need. Speaking of need, the carnival needs volunteers to host upcoming editions. I’ve got one other person who I know specifically has volunteered that I’m going to ask to host the next one, but it would be great to have several editions in advance set up. And here’s hoping Blog Carnival goes live sooner rather than later.

Read more: Frustration (again!) and Excellence

And speaking of jouissance, play and the carnivalesque, the blog carnival - a post over at if: books - is something I haven’t heard of before but I really like the sound of! New kids of social practices around blogging - new variations… very nice!

Read more: The Blog Carnival

From Tony G. at milkriverblog (Texas, US): On Birds and Molluscs, Part I. Tony has assembled a comprehensive piece exploring the relationship between kites and snails. Parts 2 and 3 are planned for Circus of the Spineless, the new blog carnival focused on invertebrate animal blogging, in addition to milkriverblog. Bravo Tony!

Read more: I and the Bird #8

For the marketers in attendance I can report back that my participation in the blog carnival did not provide any significance difference in terms of a raw traffic increase beyond what a standard blog backlink would provide. I consider participation in a blog carnival similar to other long term online marketing techniques - rinse and repeat and you will build a reputation and traffic through compound effects.

Read more: Entrepreneur’s Journey At The Carnival

Earlier today I paid a visit to a blog carnival hosted by boostrap analysis, Urban dragon hunter and milkriver blog, and sent in a submission on Harvester butterflies. Be sure and check out Circus of the Spineless for some interesting reads and factoids about invertebrate creatures.

Read more: Caterpillars sans parachutes

The third Virginia Blog Carnival is up over at One Man’s Trash.

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival #3

The Blogheads amongst you will no doubt already be familiar with concept of a blog carnival, regular themed postings hosted on participating weblogs which link to the best (or occasionally worst) posts dealing with the Carnival's theme. There are a multitude of succesful examples including the Carnivals of the Uncapitalists and the Godless and probably at least as many failures. One of the latest attempts is J. Otto Pohl's Mini Carnival of the Diasporas. Helpfully he offers a succinct definition of the concept of diaspora, which is one of those terms that's used quite often, but which is probably quite difficult to tie down.

Read more: The Chagossian Diaspora

Submit your posts now over at One Man’s Trash for inclusion in the third Virginia Blog Carnival. The deadline is tomorrow night.

Read more: Submit your posts!

A lot of regular readers here are already aware of this, but here’s the official announcement. There is a new blog carnival between the faithful and the faithless called God Or Not. The rules and instructions for submission are up at that website.

Read more: New Blog Carnival

If you are interested, the Virginia Blog Carnival now has a permanent page here at CC. It’s on the right, in the sidebar.

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival

Interested in some rich, bloggy goodness? Well, the second Virginia Blog Carnival is now online. Go check it out; maybe you’ll find some blogs that you like as much as this one!

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival II

If you need a diversion, go enter the Caption Contest. Or, if you are a blogger, submit a post for the second Virginia Blog Carnival, hosted by Brian Patton.

Read more: Hey, Kilgore supporters!

The second edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival will be taking place in a few days over at BrianPatton.org. Submit your posts by Sunday night; submission information is here.

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival II

Each Monday, a Virginia blogger will host a Virginia Blog Carnival, offering just a sample of the topics Virginia bloggers have been writing about during the week. We hope everyone’s curiosity will be piqued to read more of the selected posts, thereby giving more exposure to each participating blogger’s site.

Read more: Second Virginia Blog Carnival

I’m proud to introduce the first edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival, an opportunity to celebrate the wonder that is the Virginia blogosphere. Every week, the VBC will highlight the best and brightest of Virginia blogs, and hopefully we will each be introduced to blogs about which we weren’t previously aware.

Read more: The First Virginia Blog Carnival

Due to the holiday, I’m extending the deadline to submit a post for the Virginia Blog Carnival to Tuesday, September 6, at 6:00 p.m.

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival

A quick reminder that I’m trying to “kick it up a notch” and turn last week’s ad hoc blog burst into a recurring blog carnival. My suggested charities: either the American Red Cross ($47,771,110 as of this post) or Catholic Charities (a special collection is being held this weekend at all American Catholic parishes).

Read more: CoHR: A Homepage for a Carnival of Hurricane Relief

There is still more than a day to submit a post to the first Virginia Blog Carnival. Information on submitting is here, but the short version is this: if you are a Virginian, and you have a blog, send me one of your posts from the last week, and it will be featured in the Virginia Blog Carnival on Monday. It’s a good way to drive traffic, and to find out about other Virginia blogs that you may not have discovered before.

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival

In parallel with the remarkable efforts of Hugh Hewitt, N.Z. Bear, and Glenn Reynolds — but hardly in comparison! — I have created a homepage for a new blog Carnival: Carnival of Hurricane Relief.

Read more: CoHR: A Homepage for a Carnival of Hurricane Relief

Also: please check my own effort to “kick it up a notch” and boost the blog burst into a recurring blog carnival: Carnival of Hurricane Relief (CoHR).

Read more: Hugh & Company Kick it Up a Notch

Chad at Commonwealth Conservative is kicking off a blog carnival for Virginia bloggers. This is open to any Virginia blogger (not just political types).

Read more: VA Blog Carnival

First, what is a blog carnival? The largest one is the Carnival of the Vanities, hosted here at Commonwealth Conservative back in May. In general terms, a blog carnival is a forum to highlight some of the best blog posts that may have been overlooked over the last week.

Read more: Virginia Blog Carnival

A Blog Carnival works like this, an author of a blog chooses their best post from last week and sends it to the carnival host. The host, which rotates from week to week takes all the links collected and turns them into a single post that is posted on the host's blog. Then people can go to the host's site and find out what other people are saying about the carnival topic.

Read more: Lutheran Carnival

Sometimes our thoughts are with a whole continent. I've never been to Africa, but there were times watching Live8, for all its rock star vanities and media glam, when I felt African.

Read more: Sometimes

This week’s Christian Carnival looks at each post through the eyes of Star Wars.

Read more: Christian Carnival: Jedi Edition

The newest edition to the Christian Carnival is up over at The Bible Archive so head over and read Christian Carnival LXXVII: Jedi Edition.

Read more: Christian Carnival LXXVII

If you are curious about how to host or submit a post for inclusion into the next Christian Carnival, you can find that information here.

Read more: Christian Carnival

Go check out this weeks Bonfire of the Vanities - hosted this week by technogypsy.

Read more: Bonfire, Bonfire, Bonfire!

This week’s Christian Carnival is hosted by TechnoGypsy and uses “Desert Wisdom” as today’s theme.

Read more: Desert Wisdom

Brad Warbiany of The Unrepentant Individual has collected the recent efforts of the Life, Liberty, Property community into the blogosphere’s first-ever Carnival of Liberty (also posted on the community’s group blog). Go give a gander to some fine poliblogging.

Read more: The First Carnival of Liberty

This week I made my first addition to the Christian Carnival with my post on Worship Music.

Read more: Christian Carnival LXXVI

We had some unwanted downtime this morning, sorry about that. The site was getting hammered for most of the morning, and I couldn't figure out why—I haven't said anything mean about Powerline recently—and then I noticed that it was the Tangled Bank page that was getting hit hard. I've just recently revised that page to be an Expression Engine sub-weblog, and apparently once the spammers detected it they thought it was new, easy, fresh meat.

Read more: Grrr. Spammers.

We have a new edition of the Tangled Bank online, and the host, David Winter of Science & Sensibility, has introduced a much-needed innovation: refreshment and lunch breaks. You'll need them.

Read more: The 31st meeting of the Tangled Bank Society

If you like the metaphor of life as a pilgrimage or journey, you'll love the road trip that is this week's Christian Carnival, hosted by Dee Kreidel at In the Spirit of grace. (Beautifully done, Dee!)

Read more: celebrations & carnivals

Then when you're all fired up and inspired and stuff, you can send a link of your own to Science and Sensibility. You've got less than 18 hours if you want to meet the deadline for tomorrow's Tangled Bank.

Read more: Med-science blogger reminder

Next Week’s Christian Carnival will be hosted here, at ChristWeb.

Read more: Next Week’s Christian Carnival

Each Sunday a New Jersey blogger hosts a Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers, offering just a sample of the topics Garden Staters have been writing about during the week. We hope your curiosity will be peaked to read more of the selected posts and you will take the opportunity to explore each blogger's site.

Read more: Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers

Tangled Bank is a semi-monthly collaborative science blog hosted on alternating sites and serving up some clever, often funny, ideas. Imagine a cross between the Public Library of Science and the Journal of Irreproducible Results. The latest edition, Tangled Bank #29, includes a crash course on string theory, an exploration of the evolutionary benefits that led to the abandonment of shells by slugs, and a funny snark at the Discovery Institute’s attacks on evolution, in the form of a proposed revision of the periodic table of the elements. It’s light-hearted, but informative, stuff, written by people who knows their facts, but aren’t too full of themselves.

Read more: Tangled Bank and the Edge

Oy, but the Tangled Bank schedule is in a mess. I've got the wrong dates up for some of the future events, and everyone is confused about when they're doing what. It's my fault. My apologies.

Read more: Tangled up in the Tangled Bank

In the wake of the recent decision of Kelo v. New London and the wonderful reactions from throughout the blogosphere, I’ve decided to open submissions for a blog Carnival devoted to both opinions about and strategies to fight Kelo v. New London.

Read more: Assembling the Kelo Carnival

I haven't read Jane Eyre, but that review got me thinking about the transformative power of literature, and what books (if any) have actually changed the way I view the world. I'm limiting the scope here to fiction; talking about non-fiction books that have changed my life is a bit of a no-brainer (SES = the revolution, Sense and soul = the constitution). Off the top of my head, I can think of one book that had a major impact on me, Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. At the start of year 10 we had to pick a book from the school library to do any indepth report on. Wanting to show off to our new, very cool English teacher, I chose Bonfire of the Vanities where I normally would have chosen a David Eddings or Raymond E. Fiest novel. Bonfire changed me in two very important ways: Firstly, I realized that 'literature' isn't inherently difficult to read (leaving aside whether you think Tom Wolfe is literature or just a mess) and from that point I stopped reading only fantasy novels, to the point where I've abandoned plans to be a best-selling fantasy novelist, and I stopped reading Robert Jordan at book four and I haven't gone back. Secondly, Bonfire made me realize that the world is not a nice place. That might seem like a powerfully naive statement, but age 15 I was a pretty naive kid - I tried to convince friends that the school tuckshop would work better if run according to Socialist principles - and Wolfe's drastically cynical yet very funny take on New York was a big, big wake up call.

Read more: Summer reading babe

Like SKB, I began blogging anonymously, and for much the same reasons - I didn’t want my professional or personal relationships affected by this “blogging” thing, the whole idea was very new to me and I wasn’t sure I would stick with it anyway. My first blog site was called “Gunner20’s Blog Carnival” - save the snorts please! I called it that because I took up keyboard and pixels in early 2002 because of the daft commentary in the MSM about the Afghanistan campaign, then in full swing. Since Gunner20 was my “Hollywood call sign” when I was the fire support officer for an armored brigade in 3d Armored Division, I thought it jibed with my subject matter,

Read more: Anony-blogging

Mr. Snitch hosted the Carnival of the Vanities this past week and managed to interject a number of interesting New Jersey issue inspired graphics throughout his post.

Read more: Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers # 5

Check out the Bonfire Of The Vanities #102 at Basil’s Blog.

Read more: Bonfires at Basil’s Place

Another brand new form for sending entries to all of the internet carnvivals is provided by The Conservative Cat. This is a great one stop entry drop, for all your blog post entries, for every blog carnival.

Read more: Carnival of the Capitalists at GalaTime

You might remember that at the last Carnivalesque, I got the host to ask for ideas about where to go with this blog carnival. I was very pleased at the positive responses and the suggestions. So there has been some plotting behind the scenes, and this is where we’ve got to so far:

Read more: Carnivalesque update

This weeks Bonfire of the Vanities is up at Benedict. All the usual suspects, including moi, are included, as well as some new Sith Lords.

Read more: Bonfire of the Vanities

Thanks to Blog Business World for listing me in today's Carnival of the Vanities.

It was my pleasure to add your post to Carnival of the Vanities. Thanks for submitting the great post for others to read.

Read more: Thanks Again

To be sure, governments have to be watched, for power invariably corrupts, as the current grisly crew in office in London today testify. But though I dislike and distrust politicians, I would prefer to be governed by them than by journalists - a generally whinging, conceited and hypocritical species. It is no wonder politicians despise us, with all our precious airs, our vacuous graces and our many witless vanities. How many journalists does it take to change a light-bulb? We don’t know, because journalists don’t change light bulbs.

Read more: Did He Just Say That? Oh Yes He Did!

Denali Flavors has made the 141st Carnival of the Vanities now going on at Blog Business World! Our email from a customer was selected as part of the other great articles there. Please stop over and read some of the best content on the web today.

Read more: Denali Flavors Makes Carnival of the Vanities

If you are new to the concept of the Bonfire of the Vanities read a few of the previous editions or check out the initial call for entries. To sign up for the reminder e-mail list click here.

Read more: Bonfire of the Vanities #101 - Reminder

The Tangled Bank is the premier place for the best and brightest blog-writing on science and medicine. It follows the now familiar "Blog Carnivals" where individual bloggers submit interesting articles on science, medicine, natural history or anything that may be of interest to incurable science geeks (which means you if you're reading this).

Read more: The Tangled Bank #27

Second, Storyblogging Carnival XIX, a collection of posts from bloggers who write various types of fiction. I haven't read them all, but I particularly enjoy what I've seen of Fiddle and Burn, "a daily comic strip in prose". Neat idea. The carnival reminds me of my old Spherewide Short Story Symposium, of which there were only two editions before interest waned. My name was cooler, but that was before the whole "blog carnival" meme was established.

Read more: Couple of Links

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Read more: Monday Linky Stuff

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Read more: Wednesday Linky Stuff

Harvey has the New Blog Carnival Showcase posted over at IMAO and unfortunately he's done a great job. I really hoped he'd suck so mine would look great in comparison when I took my turn hosting next Monday. Now, obviously, I'll have to get all ya'll drunk before you read mine so that it looks better than it actually is.

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference New Blog Carnival Showcase at IMAO:

Read more: New Blog Carnival Showcase at IMAO

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Read more: Wednesday Linky Stuff

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Read more: Friday Linky Stuff

The New Blog Carnival Showcase #13 is up at Steal The Bandwagon.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Read more: Monday Linky Stuff

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Read more: Wednesday Linky Stuff

The Tangled Bank is the premier place for the best and brightest blog-writing on science and medicine. It follows the now familiar “Blog Carnivals” where individual bloggers submit interesting articles on science, medicine, natural history or anything that may be of interest to incurable science geeks (which means you if you’re reading this).

Thank you for tuning in to this edition of The Tangled Bank. I hope you had as much fun reading the submissions as I did. This has been a wonderful experience and I highly recommend hosting The Tangled Bank. If you’ve never hosted a Blog Carnival before, give it a try, you won’t regret it.

Read more: The Tangled Bank #27

This Blog Carnival is really about more than simply "revolutions," in the most strict sense of the term. It is dedicated to telling the stories of those struggling for democracy around the world.

Read more: The Carnival Of Revolutions Is Up.

Sean-Paul Kelley at The Agonist also kindly linked to that post earlier today, though without the excuse of a blog carnival.

Read more: Skeptic's Circle

Science posts galore, in this edition of the biweekly blog carnival Tangled Bank, hosted by Chronicles of a Medical Madhouse. Thirty posts, including one of my own, on all manner of scientific, medical, and related topics can be rather daunting. So rather than simply point to it every two weeks, I think I should highlight a couple shorter articles or a single longer one. Today, I've chosen the two below after only having time to peruse a small fraction of the total number of posts. But they are definitely worth taking...

Read more: Tangled Bank #28 at 'Chronicles of a Medical Madhouse'