Soccer Dad: Juggling carnivals 03/26/2007

March 26, 2007

Juggling carnivals 03/26/2007

Incoming Carnivals

I have posts featured in three recent carnivals.

Dr Sanity included my post about Bill Bennett's unusual past in the latest Carnival of the Insanities. More information here.

Life of Rubin hosted the 4th edition of J-Pix the Jewish photography carnival. To participate in future editions go here. J-Pix is the brainchild of Mr. Bagel.

Most recently, I have a post in the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Maryland at Greenbelt. To check out past and future editions go here. Crablaw is the founder of the carnival of Maryland.

Please check these carnivals out and read the many wonderful links in each.

Other stuff

Though Me-Ander says let's carnival and not compete, I'm still looking forward to the JIB's. However I'd like to pronounce on some of my favorite blog posts or ideas of 2006.

Of Wallets and Wonders at Elie's Expositions. A haunting Pesach story that tells of Aaron's final Mitzvah. (Also appeared in Where, What and When as Not By Chance.)

West Bank Mama's On Holocaust Remembrance Day, M16's, and a New Respect for Veterans was a wonderfully reflective essay on learning to use a gun and what it meant.

It's almost supernatural uses first hand sources to demonstratre that Old Canards Die hard when it comes to assigning blame for the so-called Aqsa intifada.

Meryl Yourish's best might be her takedown of Ismail Haniyeh's op-ed in the Washington Post. It had the added quality of picking up an important point that was revealed later: Haniyeh had American help ghost-writing his op-ed.

For something a lot less serious I'd recommend AbbaGav's classic Family Feud. Fractured game shows are one of AbbaGav's passions, but I don't think he did any better than this one.

In honor of Yom Ha'atzmaut, Daled Amos started an Israel Meme, that led to a number of really fantastic posts. Though Daled Amos rounds them up here a number stand out for special notice:
SerAndEz's "On a hitch and a prayer"
Perspectives of a Nomad had wonderful reflections on Har HaGilboa.
Ocean Guy remembers seeing Israel from a helicopter.
I'm Ha'aretz PhD reflected on the capture of the Kotel.

What Daled Amos demonstrated is that initiative to get a number of bloggers involved need not be organized but can be inspired by a single dogged (or is that Daled?) blogger.

Speaking of initiatives Mere Rhetoric (aside from his generally excellent blogging) created a custom J-blogosphere search engine that allows you to search through the combined wisdom of some of the leading lights of the J-Blogosphere. It's a very handy tool for getting political information about Israel.

Finally, what was my own favorite post from last year? The way back maching and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If anyone has their favorite 5 or 10 blogs from last year, list them and e-mail me a link at dhgerstman at hotmail dot com, or leave a link to it in the comments. That way we can have our own little "Best of ... " without competition.

Blogdigger tags: Blog Carnivals, Blog Competitions, Photography, Insanities, Maryland, Best of 2006.