Carnivalia

We don’t usually link to all the various blog-carnivals going on, but I thought that with the cool weather coming on, and some grey skies as well, that this weekend might see some of our readers inside with time on their eclectic hands. If you’ve never caught up with the blog-carnival phenomenon, it’s where a theme/topic is selected and people are invited to submit posts that fit the theme/topic, and then after a week or two a host-blogger posts a link-fest of posts fitting the theme/topic for people to peruse. Blog-carnivals are somewhat like Club Troppo’s Missing Link, except that carnivals usually have a tighter focus, rotate amongst different blogs and are published less often.

There’s a good explanation of how and why people bother with blog-carnivals at Blog Around the Clock.

In no particular order, here are some current carnivals:
31st Carnival of the Mundane (celebrating daily life)
The 57th Skeptics’ Circle (debunkings galore)
The 236th Carnival of the Vanities (the original blog carnival – anything and everything)
The 34th Carnival of the Feminists
The 44th Philosophers’ Carnival
Australian Speculative Fiction Carnival (Australian fantasy, science fiction and horror)
Yarnival! (not your mother’s knitting carnival)

If none of these are your sort of carnival, go and noodle around on blogcarnival.com – since there are blog carnivals just for botox bloggers and 67 Mustang bloggers, then surely there’s one to suit you. (Use the search feature, otherwise you’ll be scrolling for hours)

Some carnivals are more successful than others. Many begin and fall by the wayside due to lack of interest. Let’s hope that isn’t what happens with a Carnival of Australia, beginning this upcoming Anzac Day , being organised by Megan Bayliss of the Child Protection: Serious Business blog. It’s a chance for some perhaps overlooked bloggers to submit their posts and perhaps gain a wider audience: onya Megan!