Carnival of the Capitalists

Entering

Quick update 1/21/08:

This page will be rewritten at some point, but the key things to know are that CotC has changed dramatically and parts of the below are no longer accurate or relevant.

Entries by authors or readers of posts are being accepted, but there is no guarantee of inclusion. Easy ways to be excluded remain clear from these pages: being off-topic, spammy, excessively made up of links or cited text, and so forth. However, you may be excluded just because the host/editor feels like it, or doesn’t think your post meets an indefinable, nebulous level of “interesting” or “readable” or whatnot.

Don’t count on being included.

CotC will now include a selective set of posts that were entered, alongside posts handpicked by the host.

Ultimately entries should go to bizosphere@gmail.com, and should not be entered using a submission form as mentioned below, but for the time being thecotc@gmail.com will continue to be monitored.

It’s important to include a brief description of the post, which might help sell it for inclusion.

Unedited previous text of this page is below:

This is information regarding how to enter CotC, as well as some of the guidelines and expectations. Also see the page regarding what is on-topic.

Be aware that the emphasis is on quality.

If you enter a post almost every week, probably most of them aren’t examples of superior blogging on business or economics topics. That doesn’t mean you can’t keep doing so, but don’t expect each one of them to be included.

There is no guarantee you will be included. The decision of the host is final.

You may resubmit a post the next week, if it remains within the recentness guidelines (not older than three weeks prior to the edition date of the CotC it’s entered in).

There are three generally accepted ways to submit a post.

One is to e-mail it directly, being sure to include all the relevant information. The address to e-mail is:
thecotc [at] gmail [dot] com

The relevant information includes:

Post URL and title

Blog URL and name

Brief description of the post. Pretend that what you write will be the actual text included in reference to your entry when the edition of CotC is published, and remember to “hook” the reader with why your post is on-topic and people should click to read it, and you should be fine.

Entrant/author name might be desirable

Your e-mail address should be included or valid as the one from which you have e-mailed the submission

Another is to use the “Blog Carnival” submission form, which despite its drawbacks has become the primary way people enter:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_6.html

Note that there is not an explicit field included for “description,” which is part of the list of relevant information above. You will have to use the “remarks” field for that purpose. Because of the overwhelming popularity of the “Blog Carnival” submission form, most entries don’t include a description, and that’s a Bad Thing.

Finally, there is the original CotC submission form, created by Brian Gongol. It remains a valid way to enter, though few people apart from spammers have been using it.

If your entry is included, we ask that you link to the edition it’s in and the CotC home page.

If you enter on anything like a regular basis, we ask that you include a permalink to the CotC home page on your blog, and even try to announce and link carnival editions you aren’t in.

And again, your post may not be included. Sometimes this seems arbitrary. Sometimes this is arbitrary. All you can really do is be on-topic, be interesting and well-written, and try to hook the host with your entry description. Remember that it’s easy for hosts to become jaded when too many entries are boring, hard to read, plain old dreck, politics or personal finance or other off-topic - if fuzzily so - stuff, are from spam blogs or are purely SEO plays, and so forth.