If you are a blogger or read blogs often, you know that there are a good number of excellent blog carnivals focused on specific themes. What you probably haven’t come across is a high-quality “metacarnival” or “carnival of carnivals”, where you can read the best blog posts ACROSS topics, subjects, disciplines.

This is why a few blog carnival “organizers” have launched a monthly rotating “MetaCarnival” to feature the most interesting posts from a variety of high-quality blog carnivals. (Cool logo thanks to Kim).

Participating blog carnivals so far, alphabetically: Carnival of the Blue: oceans, Change of Shift: nursing, Encephalon: neuroscience and psychology, Four Stone Hearth: anthropology, Gene Genie: human genetics and personalized medicine, Hourglass: biology of aging, I and the Bird: yes, birds, Medicine 2.0: web 2.0 technologies for healthcare, Praxis: academic life, SurgeXperiences: surgical experiences. We want to recognize Bora for his advice and help in setting this up.

Basically, participating blog carnival “owners” and hosts submit 1-2 Picks of the Month.

- Criteria for participating carnivals: well-maintained, rotating, with regular contributors and editions, good presentation, good posts.

- Criteria for posts to be included in the Meta carnival: the posts should not only be good but also attractive to a wide audience beyond our respective fields, perhaps linked to mainstream news, perhaps building bridges across fields, perhaps simply fascinating.

- Mechanics: Hosting rotates among participants, and editions are to be published the last Monday of each month.

Upcoming Editions

Monash Medical Student (SurgeXperiences), January 26th, 2008.

ScienceRoll (Medicine 2.0), February 23rd, 2009.

Archives

#1 edition: SharpBrains (Encephalon), October 27th, 2008.
#2 edition: EmergiBlog (Change of Shift), November 30th, 2008.