Carnival of Personal Finance #94 is Up!
No Credit Needed has the 94th Carnival of Personal Finance available now.
Five Cent Nickel on checkwashing and defeating it with the right pen.
Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity on Title Insurance and what a rip off it is.
Personal Finance Advice on what do after you’ve prepared a will. This is very sound advice.
I didn’t care much for the format of the Carnival this week since there weren’t descriptive blurbs, but we all know the CoPF is quite a chore to administer. I also must say that I am VERY UNHAPPY with two submissions to the Carnival of Personal Finance that were also submitted to the Festival of Frugality. Per the CoPF rules, you cannot submit the same article to another carnival, therefore be forewarned! There were TWO, count them TWO, guilty parties this week and in my hosting ruthlessness, I have omitted your submissions from the Festival tomorrow.
For anyone that cares, the Festival will appear tomorrow and today is your last chance to submit.
Karen wrote:
I agree. Not fond of the format. Nothing to hook me in and make me want to read further. I skimmed through the names of blogs, but without descriptions I could be clicking for a long time before finding something that pertains to my PF situation right now.
Posted on 02-Apr-07 at 8:09 am | Permalink
jim wrote:
Yeah, that list format was a little weak, especially when you consider BlogCarnival by default puts it in a decent (but not awesome) format in the first place. Oh well, hosting is quite a chore but you have to know that going into it…
Posted on 02-Apr-07 at 8:35 am | Permalink
NCN wrote:
If you all didn’t like the format, a simple email would have been nice. I’ve hosted several carnivals in the past, and I’ve always used different formats. I simply tried something simple. There were over 70 submissions, and they were submitted from two different systems. I was unfamiliar with how to manage both systems at the same time, and several of the sites had copyright notices, so I didn’t want to simply copy and paste little snippets from each site. I figured that you could simply click an article, read the first few lines, and then click back if you didn’t like it.
(My plan was, and perhaps I should have included this in the carnival itself, was to go back and highlight each section. In other words, every day this week, I’d talk about an individual section, make a few comments, etc. Over at the forums, I suggested that it would be cool if the carnival could push traffic throughout the week, and not just on Mondays… I wasn’t going to highlight every post, but just the ones that caught my eye… that way, everyone gets the initial link, no one feels “left out” and then I can take my time to highlight the posts that I like…)
NCN
Posted on 02-Apr-07 at 8:53 am | Permalink
Karen wrote:
I understand the system now. I did leave a comment at your site about how I missed the post descriptions and/or titles of the posts.
The thing is this. I am heavy into debt reduction now. I tend to skip over the articles that are about retirement, or investing, or things like that. That’s not b/c they aren’t filled with great info, but just not stuff my brain is ready to process right now.
Thanks for hosting. I look forward to the updates later this week!
God bless!
Karen
p.s. sorry a little touchy. My 1 yr old neighbor is now in the ICU on a vent so I am very much on edge.
Posted on 02-Apr-07 at 12:11 pm | Permalink