The Carnival and I need your help! The 12 or so folks who read this regularly, and even those of you just recently dropping by. We seem to be hitting a trough here and I’d like to aim for at least a slightly higher plateau than we’ve been to yet.
I simply cannot read many more blogs than I do now, and it is hard to find the ones I don’t already know about. I have been trying to branch further afield. For instance, I looked at every blog in bentley’s "This Week in LibraryBlogLand" for this week that I wasn’t already familiar with. But I do not have time to go through every blog in Walt’s spreadsheet like a did several weeks back.
I am assuming that you folks read some blogs that I do not; I believe that is a safe assumption, even if I can name a couple that we probably all read.
So what can you do to help? Send me recommendations! Good stuff that takes a fresh look at an issue, or says something witty, or shows a stereotype busting side of librarians, and so on would be appreciated. And then do the same next week for Jane. And the week after….
I have one submission so far. And it is something I had already chose myself. Sure, I had hoped the author would submit it, but I had it on the draft post as one of my picks in case they didn’t.
Feel free to let others know to make submissions and/or recommendations, too. mark dot lindner at insightbb dot com is where to send them.
One last comment. Could some of the "bigger names" in the biblioblogosphere either suggest we drop this project or support us by at least mentioning the Carnival once in a while so that some of the 100s or even 1000s of people who read them regularly but don’t read those of us participating have some way to find out about it?
I’m not pointing any fingers here because there can be loads of legitimate reasons why we haven’t gotten a little "airplay" from these folks. And if I missed someone "big" who did comment on it, I apologize. But I just did a Google Blog search on some of our leadings lights for "carnival" and nada.
So if we’re just wasting our time in your opinion, please let us know. If we are doing something worthwhile in your opinion, then how about spreading the word?
[By the way, that is probably a rhetorical question to the ether, because I'm not deluding myself that any of the leading lights are reading this. And to the 12 or so people who do read, please be assured that you are all leading lights in my world!]
5 responses so far ↓
1 Christina Pikas // Sep 28, 2005 at 7:16 pm
While I’m here and commenting, one of the problems is that a lot of the big names in the biblioblogosphere do pointer-type stuff instead of original content. Not so much carnival material. I’ve been waiting with baited breath for 4 of my favorite sci/tech bloggers, but they keep just posting links
Sigh.
2 Mark // Sep 28, 2005 at 7:45 pm
Right you are! And that’s all I’m saying, although maybe not clearly, as usual. Just point to us, or more importantly, to the Carnival.
I’d love it if they got all wordy and made submissions too, but while they’re pointing, how about pointing to the Carnival?
3 jenny // Sep 29, 2005 at 10:45 am
1. because i am inrerested and 2. because i can’t recommend something you don’t read if i don’t know what you do read (aside from that “some of the blogs” bar), what do you read?
4 Greg // Sep 29, 2005 at 12:34 pm
FWIW, I’m pretty sure that most of the people you have in mind do read Open Stacks and I too have been disappointed in their lack of interest (or even explicit disinterest). I genuinely appreciate your ongoing enthusiasm, energy and support.
5 Angel // Sep 29, 2005 at 3:35 pm
I do hope no one suggests putting the Carnival out to pasture; it is, for me at least, a bit more than a public service for librarians looking to see what others are saying as well as to discover new voices. Yet I do wonder why does it seem difficult to get those submissions. There are tons of talented people out there. In the meantime, thank you for your hosting this time around.