Comments on: So what is a “blog carnival”?

By: Mario Bucolo

Mario Bucolo — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:32:05 +0000

Hi Eric, I think that at minimum the link to the webring that you insert in your side bar is ok.

In any case you can see how the other 12 blogs as insert the webring code in their blog.

The good thing of a webring is that you can jump from a blog to other as you are in a library and you see different books one near the other. More easy is to go to other book (blog) more advantage is for the community. If you place one book in an aisle and the related one in other aisle or in other floor, it will become difficult.

any way I appreciate your link and I’m happy that your blog is inside the webring

keep in touch

mario

By: eric

eric — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:24:05 +0000

Mario,

I just added the site to the blogring list. I guess I’ve never participated in a Blog Ring or WebRing before so I didn’t know we were supposed to add that HTML navigation to our page.

The NMI team here will have to do some thinking before we start adding features like that to the blogs. Part of our design concept for these blogs was to keep it as stripped down as possible and not add many bells & whistles to the side bar. Anyway it is an interesting way to get more visability for museum blogs, so don’t think we’re ingnoring it. Just thinking things over before making changes to the site.

By: mario bucolo

mario bucolo — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:21:17 +0000

Eric, you can insert without any problem all your blogs, just take care on how to list, it is conveninet:

Walker..:XXXX blog

or similar.

and add a good description

thanks

mario

By: eric

eric — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:18:00 +0000

Hey Mario, Not sure how I should be adding our blogs to that mix. I don't want to flood your blog ring with all of our Walker Blogs, but the front page is not particularly useful for anything besides finding the blog you really want to read.

By: Mario Bucolo

Mario Bucolo — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:54:17 +0000

…please try to make more people aware

thanks

Mario

By: Mario Bucolo

Mario Bucolo — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:53:20 +0000

ok, it is ready, it work!

the museums blog webring

starting from this home page

http://www.mariobucolo.com/mb/?page_id=112

every one can insert their link and get html code to put in the blog, it appear as the example in my sidebar.

By: Jim Spadaccini

Jim Spadaccini — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:51:58 +0000

Eric,

We haven’t set it up yet but we will soon. As I mentioned, we have the domain museumblogs.org. We are going to host an ongoing list (directory?) of all the museum blogs–but having regular updates and increasing everyone’s authority seems like a good way to go.

Jim

By: eric

eric — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:48:49 +0000

I think we can vouch for once a month here, pending approval from our department director who is out of town. Where did you set up the carnival?

By: Mario Bucolo

Mario Bucolo — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:34:37 +0000

I can cooperate…but some of you must to correct my english ;-)

I also still fight with my server to create a webring that we can use to improve traffic and to better jump from one blog to other.

I hope to setup it very soon and I will put inside the blog that I and Jim collect.

By: Jim Spadaccini

Jim Spadaccini — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:27:01 +0000

Everyone,

If we went ahead and set up a blog carnival (on a new blog). We’ll (ideum) volunteer to edit it once-a-month. Can we get anyone else commit to a once-a-month commitment? I was thinking we could make the most of the carnival site if we could increase the frequency.

What do you all think?