Xamuel.com Blog Carnival

This edition is extremely delayed! But I finally got around to it. Surprisingly, there weren’t a lot of submissions, once the spam was tossed out. Maybe next edition will have more.

Henry writes a very random tale: Resolving Things like Gentlemen.

Corbett Barr writes: How to Blog if You’re Not as Witty as Your Favorite Blogger Because, hey, not everyone can be as witty as yours truly *flex*

Matt Eventoff presents: Public Speaking for Professional Athletes. Not sure how many pro athletes are browsing this blog carnival, but if any of you are, Matt’s got some pointers how to behave next time the cameras are on you

Therealmind writes about a planned move to Spain. Nothing quite like moving countries to shake things up in your life.

John writes: There Is A New Blogging Star Born Everyday, Are You Next? I dunno, it seems like there are plenty of articles already which fall under the category “blogging about blogging”. But it’s a sincere submission (which is more than one can say about 90% of the spam submitted to blog carnivals), so I’ll give it a listing.

Forgive me for making this edition a few days late!!

• Darcy submitted: Pepper Pots: “The Best Story Ever”. A little long, but a very adventurous read so check it out
• Now this is interesting: Ava submitted Ten Famously Reclusive Authors and Artists. No surprise about Kubrick, but I never knew Watterson was a recluse.
• A post which tugs at my heart strings as an urban explorer: Secret Underground Tunnels in Moscow. Wish there were more than just the one photograph!
• Luke asks: What did you want to be when you grew up? Me, I went through a lot of phases. At one time I wanted to be a locksmith!
• Here to motivate us, Adam provides: Motivating Yourself. A little long but it reminds me of some of the articles I used to write. It includes some case studies. Thanks Adam
• Flanagan presents: Your love life and your fitness.
• Sumit presents: Four Things That Won’t Make you Truly Happy. This is a sort of subversive article, dispelling four myths of the form “X will make you happy” which are typically taken as “common knowledge”.
• And now for a break from all this serious stuff, this movie is for all my fellow video game nerds who love cynical video game commentary: Today’s Really Kickass Moment: Excalibur Sonic, from Giant Robot Invasion
• This isn’t your daddy’s haiku. Or wait… maybe it is. Robert presents: Questions Unending. The shortest submission this edition…
• …but not by far. Here’s another poem, this one from Boonsong, it’s about cactus and it comes with a photo. Pondering Upon Prickly Plants
• And the last submission I’ll be featuring this edition: from Mad Kane, De-Stress or Distress? Basically it’s a quick-and-dirty list of five quick exercises to lower your stress.

That’s it for Edition 2. Look forward to getting some great submissions for Edition 3!!

-Sam

If you have a particularly great blog article and you’d like to get it some extra publicity, get some extra eyeballs on it, then you should submit it to the next edition of this carnival. You can do that at the following link:

http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_9461.html

Looking forward to getting some great submissions!

-Sam