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It sounds like a great initiative Anna!

Just a question, what's the difference with what we're doing on this forum? (I think I didn't get all the details -sorry I am a bit tired today-)

I am looking forward to reading the first contributions

I hope this makes sense - I'm really tired myself.Ìý (Note to self: remind friends of time difference before they make phone calls.)

There are a few differences.

The most cosemtic is, of course, that we take it to our individual blogs.Ìý Instead of writing on a forum where, although non-expat can read, sign up, and post themselves, they tend not to congregate, it would be on blogs where people who don't know about this site (or its forums) can read them.

Second, unlike a discussion, or even a poll, it's more your own reflections.Ìý If I asked here "What did you do before you left, and what would you do differently", for example, it would become a small discussion.Ìý If you reflect on that topic, and wrote about it on your blog, it would be your own thoughts, initially uninfluenced by others.

Third... I don't know about you guys, but I like readers on my blog. *grin*Ìý This would be driving readers to other blogs and the like, since there would be links from each blog back to either the Host Blog or to the other blogs that had posted on the subject.

Did that make sense?Ìý I hope so.

Added in, I'd love to see responses in other languages, but I don't write anything except English.

Tired now.

Anna

I am not sure about the "interest" of a carnival blogging here... let me try to explain

I understand that sometimes it is interesting to have a summary of a subject when there are lots of answers wiht sometimes almost same answer many times.
I understand as well that it is sometimes interesting to take a subject of the forum and give your point of view on your blog.
But I don't understand the concept that one people of the forum should summarize a topic and talk about it on his blog.
Because people already can do that if they want ... a blog is a personal thing ... I don't get the idea that somebody asks 'you' to publish a post on a precise subject on your 'blog' ... Maybe you don't want right now, you don't have a specific point of view, you already talked about it, ... there are many reasons.
The only advantage is to have links to 'your' blog ... but there are other ways to do that. Moreover Expat-Blog would like to centralize information not to spread information into many and many blogs ...

Thank for your proposition, and maybe it will be done here if there are lots of expat-blogger that would like this idea. But if you agree, it seems that we will wait a little bit.
Don't hesitate to give other ideas to improve the website

PS : when I say 'you' or 'your blog', it is just a way to talk, it is not against you

Anna, expat-blog would host the "carnival of expats blog" on its server with pleasure when the server will be ready

Trouble wrote:

Have you heard of Carnival Blogging?

Anna

Hello Trouble, (Ohh, I never thought I would say such thing!)

You are the first one I heard speaking about Carnival Blogging.

At one time I've heard from someone in Oscar Peterson's family (a very talented musician herself) about Art Olympics (name says it all), which of course never went beyond hair salon talk.

I wonder how many good ideas die before maturing.

Good-bye Trouble, please let me know you are in good shape.

Why would I want to write on someone else's blog?Ìý I certainly don't want other people writing on mine.Ìý Or am I completely misunderstanding this?