Blog Carnivals!

A blog carnival is, in someone else’s words,

A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks.

I’ve been haunting Blogcarnival.com for a bit now, reading collections of tales on everything from cats to working at home; I figured it was about time to contribute a little, as well as just reading, so I paged through their list of active carnivals to find a few to submit things to. And I found a whole bunch!

Already I’ve been included in a couple of carnivals. My recent post Two Days Later — a collection of photos celebrating my cats, and a bit of healing after losing Taltos — was accepted to two cat-filled carnivals:

Bad Kitty Cats Chaos Festival (hosted this week at Pet’s Garden Blog)

Carnival of the Cats (hosted this week at A Crystals and Jewelry Adventure)

I also dug out an oldie but goodie for Carnival of Embarrassing Stories (hosted at Because Emily Says So who follows the carnival up with a few stories of her own).

I’ve been having a blast reading other blog posts links from each of these carnivals — many, many pictures of adorable cats, plus a few tales of being semi-naked and occasionally soapy in hotels. I highly recommend this as a form of amusement, and if you’re at all literary yourself, I urge you to try it out!

Day of Boring ComputerNess

It’s a chilly, damp spring day, the day after a long weekend. Pretty much traditional that you’re not going to want to do a lot. If anything.

This is my current condition. It’s the first day since I went full-time that I’ve had to talk myself into being useful; it won’t be the last. It pleases me, though, since I’ve gotten a lot done anyway.

It’s the Day of Boring Computer Stuff.

I’ve got little pages of my own scattered about various places. Flickr, for one, along with a couple of pages over on Ning. (I’ll list those later, with a bit about each). Each of these is, among other things, a shameless marketing tool; as such, it behooves me to have a certain amount of information about myself and my wares on each one.

Which is where we come to the boring. Because each has a section for photos, and I’ve spent the day (and chunks of several recent days as well) uploading, tagging, rating and describing photographs of everything I have for sale.

To each group.

Individually.

*yaaaawns*

…it ain’t interesting, I assure you. But with Google Images and other search engines out there, it’s got to be done. Keyword searches are as likely to point to those pictures as to anything else (especially once I’m done tagging em) and if people can easily get from those pictures to the place I’m selling them at, they’re much more likely to buy.

…that’s the theory, anyway. We shall see how it works.

But on a rainy, cloudy, grumpy sort of day, it’s at least something to do.