Comments on: Carnival Blogs http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/ What's new in the world of agribusiness Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Christopher Carfi http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/#comment-473 Christopher Carfi Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:16:44 +0000 http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/#comment-473 Gotcha. Not familiar with the Horse Blog... Gotcha. Not familiar with the Horse Blog…

]]> By: Chuck http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/#comment-472 Chuck Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:06:11 +0000 http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/#comment-472 I think I followed most of that. That's what I had thought, at least as it relates to CotC in particular. However, what prompted my post on this was a comment on my site that led to a post on Horse Blog (http://horses.blogcarnival.com/) where I found a post from my site. I hadn't submitted anything to Horse Blog. I certainly don't mind extra exposure. I just wanted to make sure I understood what the purpose was. I think I followed most of that. That’s what I had thought, at least as it relates to CotC in particular.

However, what prompted my post on this was a comment on my site that led to a post on Horse Blog (http://horses.blogcarnival.com/) where I found a post from my site. I hadn’t submitted anything to Horse Blog.

I certainly don’t mind extra exposure. I just wanted to make sure I understood what the purpose was.

]]> By: Christopher Carfi http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/#comment-471 Christopher Carfi Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:28:49 +0000 http://agwired.com/2006/01/10/carnival-blogs/#comment-471 Chuck, a "carnival blog" is a "traveling" blog post that appears at a new site each week. Each weekly "carnival" is created from submissions that have been collected over the previous week. Whoever is "hosting" the carnival that week goes through the submissions, organizes them, provides original commentary and editorial, and puts the post up. The benefits are threefold: 1) Carnivals allow a wide audience to be exposed to the blogs of folks they normally wouldn't read 2) Since a different blog "hosts" the carnival each week, the workload to put together the carnival post for that week (which can be 2-4-6 hours or more) is done by a different person every week, so the load is distributed. 3) Some of the carnivals (Carnival of the Capitalists, in particular) have thousands of regular readers, who "follow" the carnival to its place each week. As such, the hosting blog gets exposure to many thousands of new visitors on a week it hosts the carnival. Hopefully, some of those new visitors will stick around and become regular readers. There are many regular carnivals out there, the CotC is just one of them. Hope this helps! best, c Chuck, a “carnival blog” is a “traveling” blog post that appears at a new site each week. Each weekly “carnival” is created from submissions that have been collected over the previous week. Whoever is “hosting” the carnival that week goes through the submissions, organizes them, provides original commentary and editorial, and puts the post up.

The benefits are threefold:

1) Carnivals allow a wide audience to be exposed to the blogs of folks they normally wouldn’t read

2) Since a different blog “hosts” the carnival each week, the workload to put together the carnival post for that week (which can be 2-4-6 hours or more) is done by a different person every week, so the load is distributed.

3) Some of the carnivals (Carnival of the Capitalists, in particular) have thousands of regular readers, who “follow” the carnival to its place each week. As such, the hosting blog gets exposure to many thousands of new visitors on a week it hosts the carnival. Hopefully, some of those new visitors will stick around and become regular readers.

There are many regular carnivals out there, the CotC is just one of them.

Hope this helps!

best,
c

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