The Carnival of Geocaching

[ChinaDad]

Hi all!

I wanted to let you know that I have started a ‘Carnival of Geocaching’. If you are not familiar with blog carnivals, you can find out about them here.

A new edition of the carnival will be published every Monday morning. If you have a blog and write about geocaching, you may contribute articles and links to submitted articles will be published once a week. It’s a great way to drive traffic to your blog. More importantly, it can help spread the word about one of our favorite hobbies.

You may read a more detailed introduction to the Carnival of Geocaching here.

Happy Caching!

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Wow. Nice advertisement. Thanks for joining us, hope it wasn’t for the free advertising space. Do you geocache? Your profile does not say. 😯

[EnergySaver]

This hit me as a bit odd too. Looks like they’ve been signed up on the GC for just a couple weeks … yet they seem to have this need to setup a blog … yet they have not bothered to log any finds on their GC account, yet their family website shows a picture of them caching. Not doing us any harm, seem like a nice family from all the info on their blog … yet they’re not even in Wisconsin. I think I’ve identified a multiple “YET” sighting here!

The oddest is thing is that their blog page has a fake GC stats box, showing that they have 3 finds … it would appear to be a created graphic “by hand”, rather than a real GC stats box. There’s no geocacher out there with the name they show on the stats box … and again, their real GC account shows no finds. Yet another yet.

[Team B Squared]

This same thread was started in the Michigan forums today too, so it is not just Wisconsin that got it. I would assume they posted this in every gc forum they could find. I didn’t click any links, but I am kind of careful about going to pages that show up like this in forums.

[EnergySaver]

I kinda assumed they sprayed it out to the whole geo-world.

Nothing harmeful there and not selling anything … just seems like they want to share their family history (in my opinion way to much info to give out to the public via the Internet) and attract others to blog with them.

Again, the curious thing to me is that they are so excited about starting a geocaching-themed blog, when they’ve got only 2 weeks and 3 caches under their belts. I’m thinking the first time they cut their lawn, they started a lawnmower blog too.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Humor On

Lawnmower Blog,

I started it up today to fid out that I had just enough gas to get 3/4 of it cut. Had to go to the gas station to get gas. While there I bought some beer………

Maybe I should give it a try.

Humor off

[Team Deejay]

They appear to be using the name “ChinaMommy” for their caching name, in case you want to check them out. I have to believe that these people have many of these blog “carnivals” under their wing. Kind of a strange concept. You “own” the blog, so you get to sell adspace to Google, Yahoos, etc., but you get someone else to write all the content. Nice work if you can get it!

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Carnival=Pyramid?

[hogrod]

@Team B Squared wrote:

I didn’t click any links, but I am kind of careful about going to pages that show up like this in forums.

I usually pop in a live Linux CD when I want to test out unknown websites so I don’t have to worry about the effects it could have on my pc. you can download and burn your own linux cd’s or have them ship you some for free. I currently use ubuntu linux because of the awesome forum I can turn to anytime I need help.
Live cd’s are great because they don’t install anything so when your done using it your windows install is still exactly the way it was. They are also great for getting your files off a non-booting windows hardrive(or bypassing any windows passwords).

Sorry for the long rant about linux, maybe I should start my own blog and spam the WGA forums with it.

Most blogs suck, it’s usually someone taking their own spin on someone Else’s content(or just blatant copying of content).
I use digg.com for news, and I HATE it when people link to blog stories instead of the actual webpage the story originated from. hopefully the blog fad will die off, though I doubt it will.
😉

[Team B Squared]

@hogrod wrote:

@Team B Squared wrote:

I didn’t click any links, but I am kind of careful about going to pages that show up like this in forums.

I usually pop in a live Linux CD when I want to test out unknown websites so I don’t have to worry about the effects it could have on my pc. you can download and burn your own linux cd’s or have them ship you some for free. I currently use ubuntu linux because of the awesome forum I can turn to anytime I need help.
Live cd’s are great because they don’t install anything so when your done using it your windows install is still exactly the way it was. They are also great for getting your files off a non-booting windows hardrive(or bypassing any windows passwords).

Sorry for the long rant about linux, maybe I should start my own blog and spam the WGA forums with it.

Most blogs suck, it’s usually someone taking their own spin on someone Else’s content(or just blatant copying of content).
I use digg.com for news, and I HATE it when people link to blog stories instead of the actual webpage the story originated from. hopefully the blog fad will die off, though I doubt it will.
😉

Wow, thanks for all the info. Personally, I have found that I really enjoy reading sports related blogs. I really haven’t gotten into reading blogs about real news or other subjects though. I still stick to news websites for that info.

[Buy_The_Tie]

Should posts like this be allowed to stand on our message boards?

You know… and out-of-towner signs up to make a posting promoting their site or agenda (bordering on advertising)?

I felt this one could stay because it was very geocaching-related. In the past more commercial or non-geocaching threads get *wacked* immediately.

[EnergySaver]

Tie, regarding the “stay” vs. “go” … my opinion:
Leave it, unless the blog starts straying off subject.

Right now it just seems like the TITLE of the blog is
geocaching related. There’s not meat to the thing
at all, unless you want to know the life history of the authors.

[ChinaDad]

Wow. I haven’t been the subject of this much conversation in quite a while. 😯

Team Deejay is correct. We are currently logging our finds under my wife’s pseudonym (ChinaMommy) but we’ll probably create a joint name.

And EnergySaver mentioned a lawnmower blog. That’s a niche blog that I haven’t seen before so there could be potential there. Good idea!

[EnergySaver]

Ekkkkkkkkkkk! … No lawnmower blogs 😆

Don’t let us scare you … we love to pick things apart (ok, at least I do, Sept. is always a slow month at work) 🙄 plus I’m on my 4th day of Sudafed 😳

[MajorBrat]

@hogrod wrote:

…They are also great for getting your files off a non-booting windows hardrive(or bypassing any windows passwords)…

Hey Bec…hear that? This may be the person you need to ask for help!

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