Carnival Buzz

We've had great response to our new Featured Carnival feature.

To make it even easier to expand your horizons with one great new carnival everyday, we've made an RSS feed of the Featured Carnivals. You can find it on this page or, with convenient one click set-up for your RSS reader here

Enjoy!

We recently heard a program on National Public Radio featuring the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

We don't claim to have intentions as pure as Thich Nhat Hanh, but some of what he says about communities appealed to us:

What I propose is that you go back to your community and use your talent of listening and of loving speech to help other individuals to improve their quality of listening and talking and learning how to surrender their individualism to the collective insight. Then the quality of life of the group will improve. If you are happy together, harmonious among yourselves, then we can move forward to change society. Peace and social change must begin within your community.

Do Blog Carnival communities have such aspirations?

In case you haven't noticed yet, Blog Carnival changed its homepage this weekend. We've added something the Marketing Department, in its characteristically apothegmatic way, calls Today's Featured Carnival.

Why, you might ask, did we make this change?

There's never a single reason. One inspiration may have been the 47th Edition of The History Carnival. Amazingly, this edition is written in the form of a U.S. Senate debate.

Now, we know enough about the English language to know that the adjective for a piece of writing in the form of a letter is epistolatory. But what is the adjective for a piece writing in the form of a Senate debate? Sentorian?

As we debated that, we began to realize that in the hundreds of blog carnivals and in the thousands of editions, there was something worth recognizing. Maybe we were suffering PGGSS (post-Golden-Globe-Stress-Syndrome) without knowing it, or maybe it was the Oscar buzz in the air. Who knows? But in an instant, we put aside our differences and realized we needed some kind of an award for those blog carnivals that are, if you'll excuse the expression, out of this blogosphere.

We decided immediately we had to redesign the homepage, to don our tuxedos and evening gowns, and to begin recognizing the great work going on in the blog carnival communities.

So, each and every day, we will open the envelope and present Today's Featured Carnival. We hope you win! If you don't, we hope you'll at least appreciate the carnival of the day as much as we do.