The Carnival page is here: http://www.jhsiess.com/carnival-family-life/

Submissions are invited on a weekly basis, one per blog, until midnight Saturday (Pacific time) and the Carnival is live each Monday with rotating host sites.

Thanks for mentioning it!

Flush BlogRush eh? I’ve been debating that one for quite awhile. I have gotten some traffic from BlogRush, but it’s interesting to me what specific posts they come from. I’ll have to give that more thought, and probably will flush it as well.

You’re right, I should have mentioned the Blog Carnival part of her site. I’ll update the article to mention that.

I’ve found a lot of Contact form emails get sent to my junk folder automatically for some reason. I always have to check it daily to make sure something didn’t get sent there by mistake.

I had a bit of difficulty finding the page that explains exactly What Is Carnival of Family Life About?, and ended up sending her a message through her Contact page (but I think there’s a glitch ’cause I didn’t get a reply), but finally found what I was looking for.

I’ve been wanting to do a post on the benefits of participating in blog carnivals, linking out to various ones I know of including hers, as well as the main blogcarnival.com site. Hopefully I can get that done within the next couple of days. She’s got a great site, and I love the theme.

It was showing a “blog owner you should purchase this plugin” kind of nag just below the icons when I did the review but it appears to be gone now. Perhaps it was some temporary glitch.

I wrote a modification to Sociable back in November for Blogging Zoom as described here, How To Add a Blogging Zoom Icon to Sociable. It does seem like the people who’re writing these plugins should allow adding a new bookmarking site in the admin section so you don’t have to hack some code.

The real test of these social bookmarking widgets is if people are clicking on them. I don’t find that they do very often so that’s why I recommend keeping them to a minimum. Of course, your experience with them may be different.

Thanks for the additional info on the theme. It is does look very nice.

I don’t know what you mean by “nag line” but I just switched to that plugin from Share This.

Why?

Because I customized it myself which Share This would not allow. You’ll note that among the sites listed is Blogging Zoom. There is NO plugin for social media that includes Blogging Zoom except my updated version of this one! Most of the plugins list a bunch of sites that I never use, so I eliminated all of that in favor of Sk*rt, etc. that are useful to me.

The theme is from Blogging Experiment. They are selling it for $75 and I heavily customized it.