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We practically breathe permalinks at Blog Carnival. When we started, we got so many questions about permalinks that we wrote our own permalink explanation.

Understanding permalinks is like learning to ride a bike. Before you get it, it's kind of scary. Once you get it, it makes life easy.

Sometimes we forget that without permalinks, blogs would be nearly impossible and certainly of much less value. If there were a Nobel Prize for blogging, the inventor of the permalink would win every year.

Permalinks let Blog Carnival point to a specific post regardless of where it is in your stream of blog posts. People who read your carnival, for instance, usually want the link to the post with the carnival, not the link to your blog's homepage. A carnival, in turn, points to relevant posts rather than blog homepages.

Here is an illustration. This is the permalink for this post. This, on the other hand, is the link to this blog's homepage. If you click on this post's permalink, you will always get this post. If you click on this blog's homepage, you will find this post until it scrolls off the bottom of the homepage.

Blog Carnival's primary value is helping you find the right permalinks.

So please, dear reader, don't get mad or frustrated when we insist that you input a permalink rather than just any old URL. Permalinks are like oxygen to us.

The Blog Carnival Marketing Department has been busy at work.

The important news?

The Blog Carnival Widget will now be known as the Blog Carnival Edition Widget.

Earthshattering.

If you want to see what all the fuss is about, click here for a sample Widget.

The best things is to put this fab new Widget on your own blog or webpage. Why? Well, you'll have all the 4-1-1 on your favorite Carnival right at your own blog.

Go to the link above, select your favorite Carnival, scroll down to the bottom, and click where it says "put this widget on your blog". From there, it's self-explanatory. And it's easy to make it the right size and color for your blog.

Oh, and you can relax. The Marketing Department is out for the holidays. Too much stress or something.

We've never had one of our own even mentioned for an award, but Blog Carnival's Travel Blog got 10th place in this rating of travel blogs.

For whatever reason, Travel Blogs have been slow to take off in the UK, compared to our friends, in the United States. That is changing though, and it’s been a tough decision to choose my top travel blogs for 2006, with over 40 RSS feeds on my reader.

Here’s my favourite travel blogs for 2006

10. Blog Carnival

Click through below for 9 through 1. We couldn't even dream of being as good as some of these!

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