Final Linky Stuff

Due to recent events in my personal life, I regretfully announce that I will no longer be able to keep the Alliance HQ blog updated. The Blog War is over. There will be no more assignments.

This is not necessarily a bad thing.

Although the Alliance will no longer be able to provide links and traffic as it once did, there remain numerous permanent opportunities at other sites, and I encourage you to take advantage of them:

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Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page

The Blog Carnival Index

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog:
If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category, the trackback from your post will appear at the bottom of his post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

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.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free 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.

Carnival of the Cats home page.

Carnival of the Vanities home page.

Carnival of the Capitalists home page.

Future hosts for the Christian Carnival can be found in the right sidebar of Wittenberg Gate.

Information on the Best of Me Symphony can be found in the right sidebar of The Owner's Manual

Carnival of the Recipes tracking page at Blog Carnival.

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At some point in the future, the Alliance Archives will likely be transferred to a free hosting site so that Charming Alliance HQ Hostess Susie of Practical Penumbra will no longer have to pay for hosting out of her own pocket, as she's done over the last 3 years. If you'd like to thank her for her dedicated and uncomplaining service, the tip jar is in the right sidebar. Please consider dropping a couple bucks in to buy her a virtual beer. I think she's earned it.

Special thanks to:

Frank J. of IMAO for starting the Blog War in the first place.

GEBIV of There's One, Only! for his regular participation in assignments and his long stint as assignment wrangler.

Basil of Basil's Blog and Phin of The Phish Bowl for offering technical support, assistance, and blogging tips.

I had a lot of fun doing this, and I will miss it. I wish you all continued success in your blogging endeavors.

Sincerely,

Harvey

Comments

[apple-ec2link]

Does this mean Evil Glen won?

[Harvey]

Apple - sadly, yes.

Turns out it's my own fault for not training a second-in-command who could carry on in case I fell.

Poor battlefield planning, as it were :-)