“FIND your carnival, and get your blog.” This one-liner comes from a service called, er, Blog Carnival. Simply put, a blog carnival is a collection of top blog postings on different topics. A blog called “All My Eye” also provides this definition:
Blog Carnivals attempt to provide a weekly or monthly summary of key postings in a particular blogging community or topic. The source media is different (blogs versus mailing lists) but the editorial process and end results are essentially the same: a regular digest of important scholarly or technical discussions. Carole Anne Meyer has described Blog Carnivals as secondary publishing reinvented.
Topics can vary. All My Eye found scholarly blog carnivals, which focused on the science community, for instance.
A blog carnival is a blog community or network with a twist. This new “approach” hopes to help you find more relevant information from the virtual haystack we call the blogosphere. But from time to time, you will still find some blogs regurgitating second-hand information. So be careful.
Blog on!
March 30th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
So it can help drive traffic to your site or blog, huh? Hmm…
I’m getting skeptic of this because of the volume (not “number”, because it’s “hard to count”) of spammers that visit your site or blog and dump useless and irrelevant data. :/
I traced them back to these “blog carnivals”. Meh.
March 30th, 2007 at 8:43 am
this one does sound rather interesting. i do wonder though if it’s worth a try.
and is this something like the pinoyblog? or is it different?