Monday Linky Stuff

Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment:

What are your suggestions for fixing the Democratic Party?

Is due by 8pm Wednesday, January 26th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

Results for the latest King of the Blogs Tournament have been posted. If you'd like to sign up for the tournament that begins Jan. 31st (or a future tournament), see the King of the Blogs home page for details.

Best of Me Symphony #60 is up at The Owner's Manual. George Bernard Shaw theme this week.

Carnival of the Cats #44 is up at Music and Cats. The Carnival of the Cats is sometimes a travelling show, and Laurence is currently in search of future hosts. Drop him a line if you're interested - laurence-at-isfullofcrap.com. Full details at the new domain, www.carnivalofthecats.com

Carnival of the Capitalists #68 is up at Business Opportunities.

Christian Carnival #55 is coming to Digitus, Finger, & Co.. Entries due by Tuesday at midnight. Submission guidelines are as follows:

To enter, your post should be of a Christian nature, but this does not exclude
ones that are political (or otherwise) in nature from a Christian point of view.

Send submissions to: uchitel [at] slappo [dot] com

Please put "Christian Carnival" in the subject line and provide the following:

Title of your Blog
URL of your Blog
Title of your post
URL linking to that post
Short description of the post

James of Outside the Beltway hosts a more-or-less daily linkfest called the Beltway Traffic Jam. Go to the most recent Traffic Jam post in the Traffic Jam category, and send a trackback to get entered in the next edition. If you're ping-impaired, you can use the standalone trackback form, a link to which is conveniently located at the bottom of the Traffic Jam post.

Showcase - a chance for new bloggers to get some exposure. If your blog is 3 months old or less, you can submit a link to your best post to simon-at-showcase.mu.nu at any time, and it'll get a free week's worth of exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

NOTE: Simon is currently entertaining the thought of turning the Showcase into a travelling Carnival-type round-up, and is seeking input on whether this is (or isn't) a good idea. Let him know what you think.

Blogosphere Political Compass Project - Sandor of The Zoo is graphing the political positions of all the bloggers who are willing to take a short quiz and send him the results. Details on how you can get a link out of this can be found at the BPCP home page.