Submit! You Must Submit!

Hi folks -- Paul, one of our previous Guest Editors,
has asked me to throw out a plug for something he's
working on called CarnivAOL,
which is a version of a Blog Carnival.

Here's the
scenario: You've blogged this really great entry,
but then it moved off your main page and you don't think enough people
got the chance to read it.

So, with a blog carnival,
you submit your best entries, and they get put
together so that everyone has one place they can go to see everyone
else's best stuff.

Sorry, Paul: there's no way I can
plug your first call for
CarnivAOL submissions (scheduled for July 18). Just can't do
it.

Actually, this kind of ties in for my own
call for submissions for something I've been working
on, and it is thus:

If

you've got a bit of regular programming that you do,
one that involves

asking people to participate by blogging and sending in their

responses, please let me know.  I'm working on some form of

listing or aggregator page for this. Don't have a timeline
yet.

The kind of blog self-programming
I'm talking about includes:

• Weekly Blog Discussion
  Topics (Like the Friday Five or Saturday Six -- as well as Scalzi's
  topics, of course)
• Book
  Clubs
• Collaborative
  Novels
• Photo Challenges
• Round
  Robins
• Pretty
  
  much anything else that involves asking other Journalers to blog about
  
  something and collecting and highlighting their
  responses.

At

the outset, it would probably be a simple listing,
but with a little

development, it could possibly evolve into a dynamic
registry, where you

could see the latest updated assignments & deadlines, see
other

people's responses, etc.



On

a related note, if you've got other examples of Journals

self-programming (stuff that you've done yourself because you got
tired

of waiting for AOL to do it), also send them along.  I'm
thinking

stuff like:

• Directories
• Quote
  Archives
• Birthday
  Listings
• Facebooks
• Awards

As with the assignment stuff, I know some of the stuff out
there,

but am working on a more definitive list, so please send me what
you've

got.



If you've got anything like this and

would like to be included, please

leave a comment or send
me an e-mail. Please be sure to include
the name of your feature, a description, and how often it
happens.

Thanks -- Joe