In today’s New York Times, Peter Applebome writes about the Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers:
For those with too much time on their hands, a blog carnival is a collection of Web log entries, usually on a shared topic – politics, food, poker, etc.
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Earlier this year the anonymous proprietors of Enlighten-New Jersey, whose bloggers seem to believe Senator Jon S. Corzine is the antichrist, decided to start a New Jersey carnival to provide exposure for New Jersey bloggers and foster community in the New Jersey blogosphere.
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At first, the New Jersey carnival pioneers figured theirs was the only statewide carnival but it turns out there is at least one other one, Montana’s Rascal Fair, where bloggers include Giddy Up, Grizzlies Rock and Fat Girl on a Bicycle.
I love it. Virginia needs a carnival of its own. Though the well-known Virginia bloggers are all political, I’d like to see a round-up of blog entries on all kinds of topics, one that is decided non-partisan. It’d be a great way to get attention for lesser-known blogs, and for politically-minded people to discover the blog world outside of politics.
I’d do it, but I’m overcommitted in life. Organizing Charlottesville bloggers is work enough for me.
Somebody establish the first Virginia Blog Carnival. We can all take turns from there.
Great idea! I’m waiting for you or John to lead out on this. My humble blog is hardly the place…
I appreciated the civility of your discourse at Commonwealth Conservative. Crap like this (warning: language; a friend of mine asked for prayer for the London victims on a opt-in blog org email list and got called a c*** and pig, among other things) hasn’t helped my attitude towards liberals, but you are working at bolstering it. We disagree on many things, but I like it when we keep it at a polite level.
I didn’t know you were a fellow computer programmer. What languages?
Hey, there are assholes the world ’round — insanity and rudeness know no political boundaries. :)
These days, I mostly program in MySQL and PHP. Over the course of my life, though, I have become fluent in Assembler (8086), C, Python, and Pascal (Apple), plus starter things like BASIC, etc. I program to enhance communities and to improve people’s lives — I find that MySQL and PHP, allowing me to create web-based communities and tools to enhance others’ web-based communities, is the best method of doing that.
Do you have a language of choice?
True.
Well my main project is a VBA/MS Access frontend for an MS SQL server (customer database, plus). Right now I am putting the finishing touches on a Time Clock program (to keep track of employee hours) that I wrote in PHP/MySQL/DHTML. I will be releasing the program under the GPL or LGPL.
My first language was QBasic. Some others that I know (more or less): VB (VBA, VB Script), QBasic (I still use it as an advanced batch file language for DOS), PHP, Transact-SQL (MS SQL), ASP, MySQL, HTML, and JavaScript.