Many of our visitors might be new to blog carnivals. So, what exactly is one anyway?

Put simply, a blog carnival is just a special type of blog community that acts as a sort of magazine. There are so many great blogs out there that it’s often hard to keep up with your favorite blogs, and even harder to find new blogs with interesting content. A blog carnival is a way of showcasing the best blogging around a particular subject area.

A blog carnival also moves around. While every carnival is organized around a central site, each edition of a blog carnival is held at a different blog. This gives each edition of a blog carnival a distinct flavor as each host decides which submissions to include and how to lay out their edition of the carnival.

 

If you'd like to learn more about blog carnivals, Bora from Science and Politics has written extensively about the phenomenom. I particularly recommend his excellent introduction to blog carnivals and community building as well as his insightful piece on blog carnivals and the future of journalism.