Part 2 Carnival of the Capitalists Plus Feedback Requested
It’s Wednesday, so part 2 of the experimentally 2-part March 28 edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is up at The Mobile Technology Weblog. Part 1 was here.
Please be sure to check it out so the part 2 entries get some eyeballs too. One of the predictable problems with breaking it in two is that it requires two links in the same week from Glenn Reynolds, who has supported CotC since before it was unleashed on the world. That’s a lot to ask. It remains to be seen whether he will link part 2, but it’s not looking good so far.
Rather than rewrite for the blog, here is what I wrote in my e-mail to the CotC list, announcing it was up:
It would still be interesting to know how people view the 2-part experiment, so feel free to e-mail and/or comment. A very small number of readers opined, but those were almost universally negative. Since that included me, chances are this will not be repeated.
More importantly, do any of you have thoughts on how things might be streamlined for reading or creating each CotC? It typically takes a host about six hours. A typical reader is going to skim through and only click and read selected posts, which I personally find easier if they’ve been categorized, even though when I hosted I found categorizing too much additional bother to do formally.
Would there be merit in having a set array of categories, with the bloggers who submit entries specifying which category they mean to be in?
Would there be merit in the hosts being more selective about what to include? Currently they are free to exclude entries, but are encouraged to include anything on topic.
Would there be merit in narrowing the scope of what is considered on topic?
I am not sure there is any real need to change anything, at least not yet, but it can’t hurt to see what other people think.
Feel free to comment here or e-mail me with your thoughts.
Update:
Adding this post to today’s Beltway Traffic Jam.
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