For the past few years, we blog carnival hosts have become very dependent on blog carnival, at least once I got used to it after a previous service closed down.
Your ordinary blogger chooses a post to contribute to a blog carnival, clicks the appropriate bc form, fills it out in two easy steps, and then bc sends a receipt to the blogger and all the info to the carnival host, including a html sentence which can be copied straight into the blog carnival. One the predetermined deadline passes, a link to its "instacarnival" is sent to the carnival owner and host. With some minor editing, it's possible to turn the "instacarnival" into a respectable blog carnival. I've done it myself. It's so easy, that it has made me a very lazy blog carnival host.
In the olden days I would get links in the mail and have to check out and embed them myself. That's why I feel that instacarnival is like cheating.
Well, there's a problem. Blog Carnival hasn't been fully functioning as of late. I sent out a "send your links to Havel Havelim and the Kosher Cooking Carnival" notice yesterday to my mailing list. Generally I start receiving them by Sunday night. some Havel Havelim contributors do their best writing on Sundays. Nothing came. So I experimented. I sent one of my posts to myself. No receipt and no bc notice. I should have gotten two, as both the sender and host. I tried again, and again zero. I contacted Jack who said that the address is right, but if he had put up the wrong address, I still would have gotten my receipt. I sent a post to KCC, and still nothing. I sent a query to bc and still haven't heard from them. I asked my husband who's also a blogger to send in a post... nothing came to me, nor the receipt to him.
The bottom line:
Please send this week's deadline Friday Havel Havelim links to shilohmuse at gmail dot com and please blog about it so more people will know.
Thank you!!
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