You Have Been Warned: Next Carnival of the Capitalists Will Be Selective
As you may recall, hosts for Carnival of the Capitalists have always had the option of excluding any posts they wanted, though we have always encouraged inclusiveness so long as a post fit the criteria. Which is to say, substantively original writing on the huge range of topics covered by “business” and “economics,” with an odd tendency that spontaneously grew toward allowing some posts about blogging that might not really be business-related.
Usually there is a firestorm of protest when too many posts are excluded, especially if the reasoning seems odd to people. I personally prefer inclusiveness, and am not sure cutting the number way down, even if it results in amazing quality in what’s left, is a good idea.
This is why I asked Torsten Jacobi, an excellent previous host, to make sure he announced his intentions to winnow the included entries down to twenty out of those submitted.
I also suggested he reply to entrants from the CotC mail account, letting them know the plan, and then to let those included know they were selected as he puts together the post. Experimenting, or varying from the norm even if it’s within the rules, is best done with warning, to the degree possible. It’s not like everyone who enters CotC reads this blog, and I am not sure I feel compelled to put this notice onto the CotC info page. However, it’s not a bad practice to check the host blog during the week leading up to that edition of CotC.
I’d like to see hosts start enforcing the 3:00 PM eastern Sunday deadline, too. Get your entries in early.
Anyway, an effort has been made to warn you about the selectivity that will be applied by this week’s host. At least you know ahead of time, even if it is not what you would prefer.
Blawg Review, the new carnival of the law bloggers, premieres next Monday as well. We think of this new carnival as a sibling of CotC. Lawyers are are capitalists, too, and many are now business bloggers. Many of the strongest supporters of CotC from the beginning, like Professor Bainbridge and the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, are lawyers, too.
Blawg Review plans to collaborate with both Carnival of the Capitalists and Grand Rounds, the carnival of the health professionals.
We think it’s a natural development of CotC that it inspires specialty groups that might see an opportunity for greater focus and expansion of their profession or business sector. That might take some of the inevitable bloat out of the original concept as CotC grows in popularity. In sitcom lingo, these are spinoffs.
Some of us lawyers who started Blawg Review have been longtime participants in CotC and CotV, as well, and will continue to be involved in all of them.
We want to experiment with CotC and Grand Rounds, and with any of the individual business bloggers or healthcare bloggers who might consider cross-hosting and definitely cross-marketing of our various carnivals. We will be linking to these other carnivals from our Blawg Review hosts, and even pulling posts from current editions, if they touch on legal issues.
If any of the CotC contributors this week have posts touching on legal issues, those might be interesting to submit to Blawg Review to get your ideas right in front of the legal community. Even if the author isn’t a lawyer--maybe better that the writer is not a lawyer. We’re listening to our clients at Blawg Review, not just talking at them.
So please stop by for a visit whenever you can. We’re at http://www.blawgreview.com everyday, and at a different host every Monday.
Posted by Editor 'n' Chef on 04/06 at 12:59 PM
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