Keeping up with the Carnival of the Infosciences
Fri 20 Jan 2006, 11:17 pm
ferriswhell at night by foverversouls on Flickr. Posted here thanks to the Creative Commons.
TangognaT was kind enough to link to my Library 2.0 hangover post in the “Editor’s Choice” section when she hosted Carnival of the Infosciences #20 on Monday.
After some confusion months ago, I finally understood that the Carnival was a weekly wrap-up of interesting posts in the “biblioblogosphere” (a word which is glued to its scare quotes in the See Also Manual of Style). Like a carnival, this wrap-up pulls up stakes each week and moves to another host blog (unlike a carnival, the games are not rigged, and it is your own fault if you eat too many corn dogs and throw up). Ideally, if you follow the Carnival, you’ll find out about new blogs each week from the links, and visit host blogs that you might not otherwise visit. Pretty neat.
The problem was, due to its peripatetic nature, I frequently missed the carnival. I had seen the wiki, but there was no way I would remember to check it each Monday to see where the carnival had gone.
“Someone,” I thought, “needs to take the bull by the horns and make an RSS feed for the Carnival of the Infosciences! It might be hard work; it might entail thankless hours slaving over a hot text editor to get it right; but it must be done!”
Of course, I now realize (as probably everyone else already does) that there already exists an RSS feed for the Carnival of the Infosciences, hosted by the Blog Carnival Index who apparently does that sort of thing. Grab the link above, put it in your RSS aggregator, and follow the carnival from blog to blog like a drunken sailor intent on winning a prize for his gal back home.
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Actually, despite the fact that I’ve been following (or attempting to follow) the Carnival from its very beginnings, I am just dense enough that I had not realized until you pointed it out that there was a handy-dandy Carnival of the Infosciences RSS feed. . . so thanks! Without the collective wisdom of the biblioblogosphere (no scare quotes in the lis.dom manual of style on that one, but I can understand the desire to use them), we’d all be lost.
Comment by Laura — January 25, 2006 @ 7:05 pm
Laura, I’m glad to know (a) I’m not the only one who didn’t know about the RSS feed and (b) that I could help spread the word!
Comment by Steve Lawson — January 25, 2006 @ 10:27 pm
Carnival of Infosciences #22
That’s right folks, it’s carnival time again and today we have a wide range of booths to look at:
First off we see Data Obsessed Amanda Robertson and her post on the biggest challenges to the business researcher. Although Amanda’s …
Trackback by What I Learned Today... — January 30, 2006 @ 6:22 am
Carnival of the Infosciences #22
Please allow me to direct your attention to Carnival of the Infosciences #22, hosted this week by Nicole over at What I Learned Today… If you only follow one link, check out the Google translation of Javier’s piece. Priceless. Bonus…
Trackback by Open Stacks — January 30, 2006 @ 7:49 pm
Carnival of the Infosciences #22
Please allow me to direct your attention to Carnival of the Infosciences #22, hosted this week by Nicole over at What I Learned Today… If you only follow one link, check out the Google translation of Javier’s piece. Priceless. Bonus…
Trackback by Open Stacks — January 30, 2006 @ 7:49 pm