Blog Carnivals!

[omshanti]

A blog carnival is, in someone else's words,

A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks.

I've been haunting Blogcarnival.com for a bit now, reading collections of tales on everything from cats to working at home; I figured it was about time to contribute a little, as well as just reading, so I paged through their list of active carnivals to find a few to submit things to. And I found a whole bunch!

Already I've been included in a couple of carnivals. My recent post Two Days Later -- a collection of photos celebrating my cats, and a bit of healing after losing Taltos -- was accepted to two cat-filled carnivals:

Bad Kitty Cats Chaos Festival (hosted this week at Pet's Garden Blog)

Carnival of the Cats (hosted this week at A Crystals and Jewelry Adventure)

I also dug out an oldie but goodie for Carnival of Embarrassing Stories (hosted at Because Emily Says So who follows the carnival up with a few stories of her own).

I've been having a blast reading other blog posts links from each of these carnivals -- many, many pictures of adorable cats, plus a few tales of being semi-naked and occasionally soapy in hotels. I highly recommend this as a form of amusement, and if you're at all literary yourself, I urge you to try it out!