I went on a little binge of entering Blog Carnivals a couple of days ago. These things are topical themes and the way they work is that one blog has a post with a quick rundown of all participating blog posts along with links to blogs and posts.

I was pretty enthused about the idea when I first heard of it, but I slacked off after I was disappointed with the way some of them were going. The catch is that to be a good Carnival they really have to get over two hurdles. One is amount of participation and the other is quality.

The guy who runs the Carnival of Pizza is trying to get the balance right. As soon as I am done writing this post, I am going to follow the links to a couple of interesting sounding pizza recipes. The blogger who hosts this Carnival has an interesting thing in his sidebar. He is logging Pizza delivery earnings on a monthly basis.

I should also give the Carnival of Coffee another try. The woman running it chooses to postpone or cancel scheduled Carnivals rather than hold one that has of a dozen off-topic posts from people who are callously and thoughtlessly working on their site metrics and nothing else. A carnival about coffee should really the potential to take off.

Ideally, I would like to be a semi-regular participant in about a half dozen carnivals that have interesting topics.