Archive - Mar 14, 2008

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Blog Carnival: Dirty Fingers: Submission Request

A blog carnival is like a magazine for bloggers. Posts are submitted to the carnival, the carnival maintainer sorts through those submissions and posts the best on a list for all to see.

There is a new blog carnival, hosted by Tired Garden. We are requesting submission now. We are looking for articles on any topic where you get dirty. Gardening, construction, outdoors, anything goes, as long as their is dirt involved. Weekly topics will be posted. Articles that are on the topic will get first priority and be listed at the top of the carnival listing. Others will be accepted as long as they are dirt related.

The rules:

1. Must be dirt related.
2. Must be family friendly.
3. Must be original content that will be useful to our readers.
4. Must be in English (or I can't make sure the above are true).

Submission deadline is Wednesday Friday for Saturday issue.

This weeks topic: What's Coming Up?

To submit:
1. Pick your entry. Multiple entries, if they are good, can be submitted. They may not all be listed.
2. Use the submission form at Blog Carnival, or the contact form. Be sure to include you blog title, link, entry title and a link to it.
3. Read the issue when it is released.
4. We would appreciate, but don't require, a link to the issue you get into.

[edited: extended deadline to Friday.]

RSS Hugger

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I was reading a blog at Blog Carnivals and ran across a link to RSS Hugger. I thought it sounded interesting so I checked it out.

Basically, Colin is building a directory of RSS feeds that you can subscribe to. An RSS Feed is the most common format for subscribing to blog content. If you use one of the many Feed Readers out there, such as Google Reader or News Gator, or any of the many others, you are using an RSS Feed to get that.

I'm getting myself listed on the site, to see how I like it. From the little I know about it right now, it seems like a good thing. They manually check every blog to make sure they are legal and family friendly. They also check for spam. I checked several of the blogs listed and even the ones that had names that would lead me to think they were not family friendly (hotgirls4u.blogspot.com for instance, is about attractive female actresses and models, not porn as the name suggests).

In order to get the account, I have to write an honest review of RSS Hugger. That is what this is meant to be. As I've only been with them for 5 minutes, the only thing I can honestly say about them is what is listed on their site. It sounds interesting, but I'll let you know more over on my other blog at ShabamDevelopment.com. I'll probably also list that blog on RSS Hugger. (As of this posting, the other blog is in plan only, but will be up sometime in the next few days. More about it in another post.)

You can go to RSS Hugger and see my feed there at http://www.rsshugger.com/tiredgarden.info