Picture of an adorable baby fox, and a call for submissions.

On Wednesday, July 19th 2006 Brainshrub.com will be hosting Carnival of the Liberals #17: "The Birthday Edition".

If you are a Liberal blogger, and you have a post that you are particularly proud of, please send it me via this online form.

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm EST on Monday, July 17th.

In case you don't know, A blog "carnival" is when bloggers who share similar interests on a topic (In this case, Liberals.) submit their best posts, or nominate other peoples posts, to a central host-blogger who then collates and promotes them as a carnival.

The carnival happens on a regular schedule, and the host of the carnival alternates with each issue. The host is expected to do everything in h/er power to promote the carnival and present the links in a creative way. Sometimes, a theme is invoked. For example, in CotL #5 the theme was "The Twilight Zone", and, in CotL #8 I used "Haiku".

CotL is a bit different than most other carnivals because it is more selective. The host is limited to ten of the entries.

Think of Carnival of the Liberals (CotL) like the Utne Reader of the liberal blogosphere; it is a way to showcase up-and-coming writers and increase their site traffic.

This will be the third time I've hosted CotL, and the entries keep getting better. I look forward to reading, and promoting, your work.

Please kick and nominate this post to help spread the word. Do it for the adorable baby fox pictured here. :)

Peace,

Paul -V-

Can you believe we're up to #17 now? That's 34 weeks of Carnival of the Liberals now. And it just keeps getting better. We've had submissions from around 150 blogs now and some big name hosts like PZ Myers of Pharyngula fame, Science and Politics, and Lucky White Girl. And the thing that makes it so unique, in addition to being the cream of the crop of liberal blogging, are the wonderful combination of bloggers, both big and small, that get represented in every edition.

Thanks.

Oh, and I always read CoTL too. :)