Sunday, February 04, 2007

The Tar-Heel Tavern

Tarheel Tavern

The Tar Heel Tavern is the Blog Carnival of North Carolina bloggers. A blog carnival is a regularly compiled selection of blog-posts submitted by bloggers who either belong to a particular geographical region (e.g., India, Iraq, Balkans, or North Carolina), or write on a particular topic (e.g., medicine, science, philosophy, history, religion, education, etc.), or regularly post photographs of animals (e.g, cats or dogs). If you are still not sure what a blog carnival is, check this carnival collection for some examples. The very first blog carnival, The Carnival of Vanities, was invented right here, in Chapel Hill, NC, by Bigwig of Silflay Hraka.

The Tar Heel Tavern will be posted every week, during the night between Saturday and Sunday. Every week a different NC blogger will edit and host the carnival. Links to all issues will be posted right here, on this post, as they appear each week. This post is also going to serve as the homepage for the carnival, where up-to-date information will be posted about submission rules, past/current/future hosts, and whatever other information may be neccessary at any time in the future. We have designed a logo (above) and you are welcome to import it into your blog template to serve as a link to this page.

In this space, you will find links to the future carnival hosts. Each host will, a few days before the carnival, post instructions on his/her blog containing information about submission (and perhaps a special carnival theme of the week). You can also send submissions to me at Coturnix1 AT aol DOT com and I will forward your entry to the host of the week. I will always respond with a "thank you" note when I receive a submission, so if you do not get one, try to submit again. Alternatively, you may want to use the Universal Carnival Submission Form.

When you send an entry for the next carnival, please put "Tar Heel Tavern" in the Title field of your e-mail (so it does not get eaten by spam-killers). Provide the name of your blog, the title of the post, and the URL of your post. Additional blurb about it is also a nice touch. Hosts may require additional information. For instance, you may have to identify yourself as a Lefty or Righty politically, so the editor can place them in appropriate "chapters" of the carnival.

Please send only one entry, and try to make it not more than one week old, i.e., written since the previous carnival was posted. Newbies may, as their first effort, submit an older (but better) post that will showcase their writing better as they introduce their blog to the community for the first time.

Finally, if you want to keep in touch and be informed, subscribe to the Tarheel Tavern board. Sign in (see the appropriate field on the side-bar) and you'll get weekly reminders and all the other information. That is also a great tool for hosts to spread the message and inform the interested bloggers about their edition.

You can read the complete Archives of the Tar Heel Tavern here, also you can find all the links here or you can follow the links below:

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