The First Post (and the rules)
Welcome to the newest blog on the Lutheran blogsphere, and quite possibly, one of the more interesting ideas. Yes, we're stealing from such notable carnivals as The Carnival of the Vanities, The Carnival of recipes, The Christian Carnival, etc. It's getting to the point there's a carnival for everything, so why not a carnival of Lutherans? Why not? There are enough blogs to support this little endeavor.
Carnivals work in this way: an author of a blog chooses the best post from the past week and submits it to the carnival address. Whoever is hosting the carnival for the week is responsible for taking all the links collected and turning them into one coherent post with all the links provided. Everybody then goes to the site, reads all the good stuff in the Lutheran blogsphere, and everybody is happy.
Now, we come to the "who can send a link and get on the Lutheran Blog Carnival?" Basically, you have to make a quia subscription to the Book of Concord. What does that mean? You have to believe that the Book of Concord is a right and proper exposition of the Word of God. In essence, you can't believe the Book of Concord was a neat historical leap, but we're beyond that now. I'll leave it up to you to judge whether you meet this criteria. We (the two obsessive compulsive people that are currently involved in this) have the right to reject any link for any reason, especially if we wrote it.
Your submission may be on any topic as long as it is written from a confessional Lutheran perspective and should be your best, favorite or otherwise notable post from from the previous week.
The first Carnival will be hosted here, but afterwards we will take volunteers to host the carnival. We'll maintain a schedule of hosting blogs, and, on major events, host it here. What we will aim for as a goal is Sunday Afternoon, so you can read the Carnival while listening to Issues Etc. Our first Carnival will be hosted here on Sunday, 14 August. This means your links need to be in to me by Friday, 12 August so that I can get the Carnival ready. Send your links to daniel DOT sellers AT gmail DOT com.
As one last request, please participate. This thing will not work without your participation. Also, if you don't mind, link to this post on your blogs and whore it in the Lutheran blogsphere. Thanks.
Carnivals work in this way: an author of a blog chooses the best post from the past week and submits it to the carnival address. Whoever is hosting the carnival for the week is responsible for taking all the links collected and turning them into one coherent post with all the links provided. Everybody then goes to the site, reads all the good stuff in the Lutheran blogsphere, and everybody is happy.
Now, we come to the "who can send a link and get on the Lutheran Blog Carnival?" Basically, you have to make a quia subscription to the Book of Concord. What does that mean? You have to believe that the Book of Concord is a right and proper exposition of the Word of God. In essence, you can't believe the Book of Concord was a neat historical leap, but we're beyond that now. I'll leave it up to you to judge whether you meet this criteria. We (the two obsessive compulsive people that are currently involved in this) have the right to reject any link for any reason, especially if we wrote it.
Your submission may be on any topic as long as it is written from a confessional Lutheran perspective and should be your best, favorite or otherwise notable post from from the previous week.
The first Carnival will be hosted here, but afterwards we will take volunteers to host the carnival. We'll maintain a schedule of hosting blogs, and, on major events, host it here. What we will aim for as a goal is Sunday Afternoon, so you can read the Carnival while listening to Issues Etc. Our first Carnival will be hosted here on Sunday, 14 August. This means your links need to be in to me by Friday, 12 August so that I can get the Carnival ready. Send your links to daniel DOT sellers AT gmail DOT com.
As one last request, please participate. This thing will not work without your participation. Also, if you don't mind, link to this post on your blogs and whore it in the Lutheran blogsphere. Thanks.
posted by RandomDan @ 5:17 AM
16 Comments:
At Samstag, August 06, 2005 3:14:00 PM,
Paul Gregory Alms said…
Wow, what a great idea. I have posted a couple of things to the Christian carnival but it is easy to get lost in the crush there.
Thanks for doing this.
Greg Alms
At Samstag, August 06, 2005 3:18:00 PM,
Rev. Alex Klages said…
Neat idea. and "blogsphere" is misspelled on your strapline up at the top there.
At Samstag, August 06, 2005 3:36:00 PM,
TKls2myhrt said…
This is a really great idea!!!! I will plug it on my blog, too! I, too, have been tempted to participate in the other carnivals but knew I wouldn't really be welcome for my ideas.
At Samstag, August 06, 2005 6:18:00 PM,
Petersen said…
Thanks to Alms for pointing this out. I lvoe this idea and would be glad to participate as well.
At Samstag, August 06, 2005 7:12:00 PM,
Anonym said…
Thanks for plugging this on your blogs and Rev. Klages, thanks for the heads up on the typo!
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 12:01:00 AM,
Anonym said…
Never heard of this concept.
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 1:22:00 AM,
Robert Elart Waters said…
"Blogosphere," actually.
I think this is a great idea. But why not just host it here? It would make for a lot less work for everybody concerned, and we could concentrate on quality posts.
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 1:47:00 AM,
Robert Elart Waters said…
Linked- and featured. But Daniel... which is your blog? I'd like to link to it in my post on this one.
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 2:30:00 AM,
Anonym said…
I pitted "blogsphere" against "blogosphere" in a googlefight and the winner is at the top of the page.
Only volunteers will host the carnival. It would be nice for anyone who contributes to offer to host it, but I don't know if that will be necessary. Hosting a carnival does require work, but the payout is that it brings in a great deal of traffic to the host's blog. I was linked from some ABCNNBC type website in an article about different carnivals and received thousands of hits when I hosted Christian Carnival.
As if that's not enough of an incentive, I'll add this - since it does require work, it's nice to share the load.
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 4:05:00 AM,
TKls2myhrt said…
OK, share the german code please!!!
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 6:53:00 AM,
RandomDan said…
The whole reason for having a Carnival bouncing from blog to blog is that it gives everybody a boost in readership. Yes, it can be a little bit of work, but it is also a way for everybody top participate in it. This site is purely as a reference point. If you forget who's hosting the carnival this week or you need links to past carnivals, you can always come here.
At Sonntag, August 07, 2005 6:55:00 AM,
RandomDan said…
Theresa,
Go to the Settings bar after loggin into your blogger account, go to format, and change the date language to German. It's really simple.
At Montag, August 08, 2005 4:34:00 AM,
The Terrible Swede said…
Erica and I created links and intro posts. We hope to give you some suggestions and links.
At Dienstag, August 09, 2005 12:39:00 AM,
Xrysostom said…
I'll put together a blurb and see which post to favor.
wps+
At Dienstag, August 09, 2005 10:25:00 PM,
Sean said…
i dont get it... it's just a bunch of links used in sentence form?
At Donnerstag, August 11, 2005 9:09:00 AM,
Xrysostom said…
Sean, what it does is send traffic to your blog by direct reference and by the power of links with search engines. So if you have something that others should read, make sure the carnival knows about it.
wps+
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