Carnival Buzz

Welcome to the second edition of New Carnival Showcase. Since we're traveling, we won't have time to cover all the new carnivals out there. That would make this the short and sweet edition.

Quite by accident (honestly), this is the 2,500th edition added to the Blog Carnival Index. While this carnival focuses on the great new blog carnivals, remember to check out all the new editions of the old-time carnivals, too!

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

In addition to submitting their carnivals, a few of new carnival organizers gave some background their new carnivals. Let's start with a retreaded carnival, Carnival of the Cars. This carnival started last year, then lapsed into obscurity. Luckily for all you car nuts out there, Mark Tapscott came along and revived it. Tapscott started his journalism career writing a weekly car column for the Washington Times. He emailed:

I started the Carnival of Cars as a way of helping encourage other auto bloggers to help each other grow everybody's audience. Plus, it is just plain fun writing the thing and keeping up with what everybody else is writing.

Our favorite article from the most recent Carnival of the Cars is on hacking your Prius, but there's lots, lots more car reading.

Enquiring Minds

Don Surber, a self-described columnist/writer from Poca, West Virginia, wrote us about the Carnival of the Celebrities:

The Carnival of the Celebrities is patterened after the Carnival of the Insanities in that it is not just what bloggers send in but what is going on in the Celebreality (as MTV calls it). The first one was a success not because of the hits I got (not many) but the fun I had writing it. People forget this is supposed to be fun and carnivals should reflect that.

The first and only (so far) edition is a fun read. Before the Academy Awards, you'll have to click through for the Brokeback to the Future link.

R, R, R

Last, but not least, on our whirlwind tour of new carnivals, is the Carnival of Homeschooling. Henry Cate writes that he was inspired by Carnival of Education to develop a carnival focused on the issues of schooling at home.

I read Hugh Hewitt's book "Blog." Hugh points out a number of different ways that blogs can be used, and opened my eyes as to some of the possibilities.

My wife and I have been very interested in writing a book about homeschooling, and creating a blog called "Why Homeschool" seemed a good way to play with some ideas and get feedback from people as to some of the reasons they homeschool.

So, careful, if your blog post is included in the Carnival of Homeschooling, it may end up in Cate's book! We're impressed about how quickly this carnival has enlisted a host of carnival hosts. The fourth edition was hosted at The Common Room and features quotes from the writer Charlotte Mason to introduce the links.

Coming to a Carnival Near You Soon

Thanks for checking out the second edition of New Carnival Showcase! Sorry we didn't have time to cover more of the great carnivals coming out. Below is information on the carnival if you'd like to participate in the future.

If you've started a new carnival in the past three months, please submit the permalink to your best edition to date to the New Carnival Showcase submission page. Of course, what the New Carnival Showcase really wants is the behind-the-scenes dirt! So, include a few words about what inspired the carnival, who's involved, and the vision of the carnival.

We're looking for hosts for future editions, too. If you're interested, go to the New Carnival Showcase page, click on "Steven" (next to "Maintained by:"), and leave your contact information there.

Submission Guidelines

• The new blog carnival should be no older than three months.
• Submit a permalink to one edition of the new blog carnival.
• Give the name of the new blog carnival.
• Include information about what inspired the carnival, who's participating, and the vision of the carnival.