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Comment on We’re now on Twitter (and Identica) by pookito

pookito — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:36:01 +0000

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Comment on Call for submissions: Festival 43, the New Year’s edition by jason

jason — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:30:12 +0000

LOL! I hadn’t quite thought of it as a spree, but it’s funny that it worked out that way. Some of those were scheduled six months in advance, yet there they are piled up with everything else. Well, for me at least, you can never celebrate nature too much or too often.

I’m looking forward to hosting the next edition of ‘Festival of the Trees.’ January 1 is good for more than just New Year celebrations. So as Dave said, please send me your submissions.

Comment on Call for submissions: Festival 43, the New Year’s edition by Jasmine

Jasmine — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:54:54 +0000

Thank you. I’m not jewish but am very intrigued by the new year for trees. I will try and get something in

Comment on Call for submissions: Festival 42, the Once-ler edition by Festival of the Trees 42: seven billion new trees | Via Negativa

Festival of the Trees 42: seven billion new trees | Via Negativa — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:34:01 +0000

[...] to the 42nd edition of the Festival of the Trees! When I announced this edition on the coordinating blog, I joked that I felt a little like the Once-ler, the hermit-like narrator [...]

Comment on Submission deadline approaching by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:28:29 +0000

Sure.

Comment on Submission deadline approaching by jasmine

jasmine — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:34:13 +0000

I’m going to e planting a tree tomorrow in a nature reserve. I will post aout that, is this the sort of thing you are looking for?

Comment on Submission deadline approaching by Sherry Chandler » Blog Archive » Notices

Sherry Chandler » Blog Archive » Notices — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:10:53 +0000

[...] Festival of the Trees is looking for entries. Just a quick reminder that less than a week remains in which to post something about trees or forests and send the link to me (bontasaurus [at] yahoo [dot] com) for inclusion in the December 1 edition of the Festival of the Trees. The deadline is November 29. See here for complete details. [...]

Comment on Jade Blackwater joins Festival of the Trees team by Roundrock Journal » Blog Archive » Sunday observations

Roundrock Journal » Blog Archive » Sunday observations — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:03:48 +0000

[...] Festival team is delighted to announce that we’ve been joined by another. A girl, even! Jade Blackwater has come aboard to add her own zest to the wacky goings on. You’re probably [...]

Comment on Call for submissions: Festival 42, the Once-ler edition by High graded | Via Negativa

High graded | Via Negativa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:20:00 +0000

[...] send me the link so you can be included in the next edition of the Festival of the Trees. See my call for submissions on the coordinating blog for [...]

Comment on Call for submissions: Festival 42, the Once-ler edition by Dave Bonta

Dave Bonta — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:06:04 +0000

Hi Beth – I’m glad you’re interested in becoming active, and even hosting! Down below the list of past editions on the right is a list of the scheduled editions. As you can see, 2010 is wide open at this point, though given my current deperate pleading, that may change soon.

Blog carnivals have been around for years, but a lot of bloggers still don’t know about them. They started in the right-wing political blogosphere as a way to encourage bloggers with similar interests to read/support one another, and it worked very well, but since that’s it’s own world, it took a while to spread to the rest of the blogosphere. Science, nature, and literary bloggers skew left, I think, so we were not among the first non-political bloggers to latch on to the concept. The original blog carnivals were weekly, and the biggest and most popular nature blog carnival, I and the Bird, is bi-weekly, but for the Festival of the Trees, Paul and I couldn’t see having editions more frequently than once a month, and most of the other nature blog carnivals have done the same.

Blog carnivals have been compared to magazines with ever-shifting venues and dispersed contents, but one big difference is that hosts aren’t expected to exercise tight editorial control over content: everything that fits the guidelines may be included, even if the photos are a little fuzzy and the writing isn’t perfect. The emphasis is on participation and enthusiasm for the subject matter, and it’s assumed that readers are capable of deciding for themselves what’s good and what isn’t. Hosts can be proactive and search for relevant posts and other online material that wasn’t submitted in order to round out his/her edition. (Hmm, I should recycle some of this into the About page, shouldn’t I?)