Comments on: History Carnival 22

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By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:47:47 +0000

THe Teaching Carnival is now up at Scrivenings

By: New Kid on the Hallway

New Kid on the Hallway — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:30:18 +0000

FWIW, I got very few actual nominations for the Teaching Carnival. By no means none, but not a flood – maybe 7? And only three of those were from people that I don’t “know” online – that is, folks who don’t comment on my blog/me comment on theirs. Not that many people tagged posts for it, either – most of the folks who used tags were the same folks who sent me posts. I think the thing with the Teaching Carnival is that it’s so far-reaching – there are SO many people who teach in the blogworld now. Basically I went through the month bookmarking any post I saw that was remotely related to teaching – it wasn’t hard to find a lot, and they really do fall into certain categories pretty easily. I think the History Carnivals would be harder to compile.

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:00:44 +0000

Thank goodness! I’ve posted the link and e-mailed it to people who usually publicise the carnivals.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:21:46 +0000

Is that the problem? I wondered what was going on. But you can read it via the RSS feed in Bloglines. Don’t know if this will continue to work, but try it:
http://www.bloglines.com/preview?siteid=568300

(And, just in case, I have grabbed a copy of the whole thing and saved it as a file.)

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:13:31 +0000

Argh — teaching carnival is down — typepad seems to have lost a gajillion posts.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:34:42 +0000

Caleb, it’s a great idea. In fact, I sort of made a start on it about two months ago (and found that Jeremy had already quietly set up some tags for the HC). Except that I then forgot to do anything to publicise it. So the tags all exist (and for Carnivalesque too). I just need to get things more organised.

http://del.icio.us/tag/carnivalesque
http://del.icio.us/tag/historycarnival

http://technorati.com/tag/carnivalesque
http://technorati.com/tag/history+carnival

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:36:09 +0000

Speaking of which, Teaching Carnival is up!

By: Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:28:13 +0000

Thanks for getting it all started, Sharon! I wonder whether it would increase the number of people who nominate if the History Carnival followed the example of the new Teaching Carnival. You can nominate for that carnival by posting something to your del.icio.us page and tagging it "teaching-carnival" or by adding a Technorati tag, "teaching-carnival" to your own post. (See here and here.) That way, in addition to the emailed nominations that an editor receives, the editor of each issue has a large base of posts to choose from. And even if not all of them make the final cut, they are still available to people who want even more great teaching posts. I'm not sure whether these features have actually expanded the base of people who nominate for the Teaching Carnival. It appears, for instance, that only a handful of people are really posting to the del.icio.us page. But I know I would be more inclined to nominate something if I could click a bookmarklet and do it right then, instead of racking my brain when the deadline comes around for posts I've seen over the past two weeks. What do you think?

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:55 +0000

Well, I can say that Carnival 22 had a lot more help, in the form of nominations, than #6 did. I did some digging through my RSS feeds and a few other likely sources from the Blogroll, but well over half of it was nominations. On the other hand, those nominations came almost entirely from four people, five if you consider my digging a form of nomination….