Carnival Buzz

Here's a question that showed up in our mail box today:

Just wondered if you had a way of seeing which carnival had the longest scheduled set of hosts...Carnival of the Green is now booking into 2007!!! Is anyone booked up further than that in advance?

With a little help from the database guru, we found out that quite a few blog carnivals have scheduled editions way out there:

• Carnival of Christmas
• Carnival of Personal Finance
• Carnival of Bent Attractions
• Carnival of the Green
• Carnival of the Godless
• Does My Blog Look Good in This?
• Skeptics Circle
• Carnival of Feminists
• The Big Fat Carnival

With the new InstaCarnival function (see this recent post), it's a good idea to keep at least one future edition scheduled ... even if you change the schedule.

Why? Well, currently the great new InstaCarnival feature only shows you all the submissions for the next scheduled edition when there actually is a next edition scheduled.

We asked the database guru why. He said that, like gravity, it's just the way the world works right now.

So, thanks for the question. Feel free to send in other questions and we'll check with the database guru for further insights into the world of blog carnivals.