Traveling Carnival Of New Jersey Bloggers?

Five weeks ago we began the Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers with a few basic goals. We wanted to generate additional interest in New Jersey blogs, bring attention to Jersey blogs that others might not have discovered and offer a sampling of topics about which Garden Staters had written over the past week. Our hope was to peak reader curiosity in the posts submitted or selected in a manner that encouraged people to click on over to read more and explore each blogger’s site.

The first suggestion we received about the Carnival came from the author of Cripes, Suzette. She suggested the use of an identifying graphic in keeping with the carnival theme and unique to New Jersey – specifically the Food Circus Clown of Middletown and Tillie from Palace Amusements in Asbury Park.

We decided Tillie fit the bill and reader consensus formed around the “weathered Tillie” over the “refurbished Tillie” icon. Mr. Snitch has created two Tillie graphics, shown below and suggests New Jersey bloggers participating in the Carnival place one of the two on their site to support the project.

This leads to our suggestion. A real carnival is nomadic and applying this concept to the blogosphere, this Carnival ought to travel from blog to blog. We believe the Carnival should reflect a variety of editorial points of view, expand the number of New Jersey blogs included and allow the unique creativity of each Carnival host to shine.

Please let us know your thoughts on a traveling Carnival of New Jersey Bloggers. We are willing to keep track of the hosting schedule and other administrative matters, if others are willing to act as hosts.

Just a reminder for this week. All Garden State bloggers and blog readers are welcome to submit links for this Sunday’s Carnival . Just send us an email with a link to the post you’d like us to include.