We used to have various means of highlighting our own, or somebody else's journal. Two methods have fallen by the wayside, and a third is beginning to fade.
Paul (plittle) was the keeper of CarnivAOL, a blog carnival, where you could submit one of your own entries. After 40 editions, and a failed attempt to outsource the hosting of it, CarnivAOL had its last outing at the end of May this year. I was told that it is no more.
Guest editor's picks is another phenomenon that has gone into the dust after a year or two. You could select six blogs, and do a write-up on them.
Joe, the previous journalseditor, introduced blogplugs. This is a tag you could add to an entry you would like to highlight, and every week, the journalseditor would run it through Technorati. Since he was "let go of" by AOL, the blogplugs have begun to sink. Trawling through the blogplugs tag on Technorati shows only a handful of journalers still using them.
My attention was first drawn to J-land through the VIVI-awards in 2005.
After a fraught rerun in 2006, they were no longer done this year.
Has anyone got any thoughts or ideas to revitalise the exchange of blogs?
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I think even BobandKate quit on us too.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't AOL give us a place to highlight them.
I know it's alot to ask and they have already let go of our connections to AOL,Joe-John....I'm almost afraid they will take our journals from us next(shhhh-you didn't hear that!!)
~connie~
It appears we've been left on our own.. I do NOT want the Vivi's it caused more trouble then it was worth and just put a divider into JLand. Guest Editors was good.. maybe someone in JLand can revive it......... Guido?
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No ideas here I'm afraid. I'm not familiar with anything you have mentioned. I never go into the J-land community thing. I find out about other journals by word-of-mouth or pen if you will. I'm sure I am missing some very good journals out there.
ReplyDeleteLisa
I think the "Guest Editor" picks might be the best soloution, then we all have a chance to put forward journals that we like to read, especially to welcome new journalers.
ReplyDeleteYasmin
I think the editor's picks were cool. And I enjoyed the Carnivaol. I still use blogplugs. On my journal....and I sometimes send in on others. But they don't get the reads the other two did. - I wouldn't mind hosting a carnivaol, if others were interested in using it.
ReplyDeleteNow that AIM screennames can comment on aol journals, I'd like to see something that went more widespread. Got some people outside of AOL interrested in the many fine journals we have here.
Barbara
I don't have a clue. I didn't pay much attention to CarnivAOL, or any of the other events. I know there's a ga-zillion journals out there and there ought to be some way of knowing about them but again...I don't have a clue how that could be done. Linda
ReplyDeleteI think Paul did a wonderful job with Carnivaol, but we all should have helped out more, myself included. Maybe all of us could hilight blogs we like more frequently in our own postings.
ReplyDelete~Mary
That's too bad that the Vivi's were such a disaster. It would be fun to have them again.
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