Carnival Buzz

Here at Buzz, we spend a lot of time promoting new carnivals. So we thought it'd be refreshing to mosey through neurons less traveled and take a return trip to some good old blog carnivals we may have overlooked recently.

Who's You're Daddy?

Carnival of the Vanities is the daddy of carnivals, the carnival that started them all. It features links to the best recent blog posts (as determined by the bloggers who submit links). If you're a blogger looking to get exposure from a well-edited, high-traffic carnival, try submitting a recent post to CotV. The most recent edition, Edition 179 (yes, 179 editions!!), starts with some great Editor's Picks followed by links to blog posts in categories like Economy and Finance, Blogging, Culture, and How-to. Being the information sharers that we are, our fav link was to Wayne Hurlbert's post on Information sharing: Help others succeed.

Is There Doctor In The Blogosphere?

Like the most recent edition of the CotV, the most recent edition of Grand Rounds starts with 10 featured blog posts about medicine followed by links to blog posts in categories like Patient's Perspective and Commentary. Hmmm, is there a universal carnival format emerging? We like reading editor's picks at the top of a carnival, especially when we don't have time to click through every last link in a carnival (and who doesn't feel a little guilty about possibly missing a great nugget of information when they don't click on every link in a carnival?) (or are we the only obsessive-compulsives here in the blogosphere?).

Speaking of sharing information, the post on building centralized pharmaceutical histories for patients seems simultaneously wonderful and creepy. It's nice to know that any pharmacist could flag a bad drug interaction for any patient. However, given that Walmart and Office Max can't seem to hold on to mere credit information, imagine what would happen if the world were to find out what drugs we use to write these blogs?

Next Stop, New Jersey

In case you were concerned that a universal carnival format had emerged, take a gander at the most recent edition of the Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers. Other geographies have carnivals (Wisconsin, Virginia, North Caroline, India, England, the Balkans, etc.) (if you're from a carnival-challenged geography, please register and start one!), but it's hard to beat the the Garden State bloggers for, well, being New Jersians.

In other words, this carnival is off the wall.

Not that we pretend to understand anything New Jersey. The post about Two Guys is about as parochial as we can imagine. We don't understand Two Guys like New Jersians don't understand Gemellos, the place to go for wine if you grew up near Stanford in California.

Speaking of which, it's time for a glass of Syrah and a little cheese while we digest a few more carnivals.