Soccer Dad

Juggling carnivals and schmoozing

Incoming Carnivals

Dr. Sanity very kindly included me in the latest edition of Carnival of the Insanities, not only giving me top billing, but having me share it with Israel Matzav.

The latest J-Pix is up as the home of its founder Mr. Bagel. I especially liked the Temple mount pictures.

There are some great Deathly Hallows reviews up at the latest Harry Potter Carnival. So if you're read the book and wish to read some considered comments about it check it out.

Upcoming Carnivals

Contribute if you'd like to this week's Kosher Cooking Carnival to be hosted at Juggling Frogs.

Schmoozing

The Ignoble Experiment has graciously awarded me a Schmooze award. Thank you very much for the praise and award. Here are some details.

The rules: If, and only if, you get The Power of Schmooze Award, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, or have schmoozed you into submission. Link to this post and Mike so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.

Optional:
Proudly display the ‘The Power of Schmooze Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.

So, in accordance to the rules of award, five (actually six) bloggers do indeed come to mind (though I would honestly love to award many more). In fact, I WILL award more, and you'll just have to read them all, because I said so! There! : P

So with no further ado here are my choices

Me-Ander - Shiloh Musings. She has been one of the most frequent hostesses of Haveil Havalim, and flattered me by creating her own Kosher Cooking Carnival.

Mr. Bagel who provided the logo for Haveil Havalim and clever logos for many individual editions, including the classic for the 100th edition that he hosted, has started J-Pix a Jewish Photography Carnival.

Pillage Idiot created the Maryland Blogger Alliance. (When I joined membership increased by 100%. It was very flattering.) And though CrabLaw created the Carnival of Maryland, it is now Pillage Idiot who maintains that carnival.

Remaking a blog is very difficult, but Daled Amos did just that. He has become a one man aggregator of pro-Israel information. Using every source at his disposal, Daled Amos provides links to the most important Israel related articles and blogs of the day. Best of all, most of those sources are available to you on his sidebar.

Meryl Yourish has been blogging longer than even Instapundit. But she doesn't just blog, she promotes other bloggers, especially pro-Israel bloggers, highlighting their contributions (aside from her own great blogging.)

Last but not least, I'm going to give a Schmooze award to Mere Rhetoric for developing the J-Blogosphere search engine.

Enter search terms about anything related to Israel and the combined knowledge of some of the foremost pro-Israel bloggers is available to you as a resource.

Blogging is about a conversation where a good idea is suggested by one and promoted by others. My awardees have contributed to that conversation by by promoting others either by maintaining carnivals or by other means.

Promotions

One of the nice things about blogging is watching other blogs get recognition as their contributions are recognized by others.

Long time blogging pal Colossus of Rhodey.Hube has been invited to contribute to Newsbusters. I think I first encountered him at a blog called Oh that liberal media, so this is essentially a return to his roots.

Inside Charm City has broken a story of (at least) local interest when noticed the infamous "Stop Snitching" video at the UMBC library.

Nice work all.

blogging, blog carnivals.

Posted by SoccerDad at August 14, 2007 5:00 AM | TrackBack