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This is the sixteenth edition of the Blog Carnival: Blogging.

• Kevin presents Don?t Forget the Last Step in Blogging posted at The Red Stapler Chronicles.
• Kacper Wrzesniewski presents Taking break from blogging? posted at KacperWrzesniewski.com.
• Robert Phillips presents How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.
• MBB presents Battling Blogger Burn Out and Lack Of Blog Posting Frequency posted at Money Blue Book Personal Finance Blog.
• Vidyut Kale presents 5-5-5-4-5 Traffic Tips posted at Nerd In Progress.
• Cheryl Hines presents Article Writing For Dummies! posted at Internet Marketing With The Hines’.
• Heather Johnson presents Mobile blogging? using apps or browsers posted at Blog Solute.
• AndrewB presents Hit Digg’s Front Page by Writing Killer Headlines posted at SEO Tips.
• Samir presents Blog Ads by PerfomancingAds posted at Samir’s Online Enterprise Blog.
• Richard McLaughlin presents Asking For A Stumble posted at Cheap Keywords.
• Nesher presents Adding Emoticons to Blog Posts at Blogger posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.
• Thursday Bram presents Where to Start With This Whole Writing Thing? posted at thursdaybram.com.
• Katy Landers presents Adventures in Marketing: Blogging caution posted at Adventures in Marketing.

You can add to this Carnival by sending your post through our contact form or you can also add it by visiting blogcarnival.com and selecting the carnival blogging.

Yardbarker is a nice sports community where you can create a free profile. The features are:

• Articles: You can post articles, photos and videos from around the web. You can also write original articles for Yardbarker.
• Video: You can upload original video files or embed video hosted elsewhere on the web (e.g. YouTube). If it’s an original video file, start with the “Submit a Video” tab in the navigation bar. If you want to embed video, use the “Submit a Video” tab or embed the code directly into the body of an article post.
• Verified athlete: Verified athletes are people whose identities have been confardbarker. If you see an athlete in the Yard with a “Verified Athlete” icon next to his or her name, you know it is the real person.

Tribe is a nice community where you can create a profile and add friends. The features are:

• Blog: You can create blogs with your tribe account.
• Bookmarks: You can bookmark members, tribes, listings and events that you find interesting.
• Listings: Listings are the way to get something done on tribe - sell your sofa, hire a new employee, or promote an event. After you’ve posted your listing, you’ll be able to check how many views and responses it has.
• Photos: Tribe has partnered with Qoop.com to let you easily make prints, photobooks, posters, and more from your Tribe photo album.
• Reviews: You can write or browse the reviews of any item.
• My tribe: You can create a nice community in which the fellow tribe members can join. Also, you can join an existing tribe.

Here is the list of free Blog editors:

1. Qumana: Lycos-Qumana is a free and easy blogging editor to post to one or more blogs - including Tripod blogs.
2. Zoundry Raven: Zoundry Raven is a WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier and faster. It’s as easy to use as a word processor, plus we include simple tools to add links, tags, photos, music and video files, and more.
3. Wbloggar: The w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources.
4. BlogDesk: Writing new entries online using your weblog’s control panel can get complicated and time-consuming, especially if you want to format your text or insert images. BlogDesk will make publishing a lot easier and speed up the whole process. Composing offline and using BlogDesk’s extra features benefits beginners and experienced writers - they all can focus on the content instead of wasting time with technical details.
5. Post2Blog: Post2Blog 3 is a FREEWARE handy blog editor with live spell-checking support for pro-bloggers.
6. Scribefire: ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
7. Windows Live Writer: Easier, Faster editing, modification of your posts and Drafts. Support for Multiple Blogs and cross posting and much more.
8. Blogmate: BlogMate is a free, graphical plug-in (+ a bundle too) for the popular TextMate editor that enables creating and editing blog posts for MetaWeblog-enabled blogs, Twitter, and Jaiku accounts from a floating palette within TextMate.
9. Bleezer: Blog from anywhere, Work on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Work with any blogging service. As many as you want, even Blogger. WYSIWYG editing, Image upload, Support for multiple categories, Add tags for any tag service, Create custom markup, Spell check, and
   Work online or offline.
10. Thingamablog: Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless.
11. Webpad: Webpad is a web-based text editor which gives you access to files from any of the following locations, Your own computer (via file upload), The server that webpad is installed on (via direct file manipulation), Any FTP server (via FTP file operations), Any website (via remote file requests), Popular blogging tools (Blogger.com, MovableType, TypePad, LiveJournal, blosxom, WordPress), Other data sources via a flexible plugin system.
12. Xinha Here: Xinha Here! is a Firefox extension wrapper for the Xinha HTML editor. It enables WYSIWYG editing in any textarea and text box on any website. Xinha Here! opens a Xinha HTML editor in your browser allowing you to edit the data in a WYSIWYG on any website without copying and pasting to secondary HTML editor.
13. Write to my blog: WriteToMyBlog is a free web based word processor for your Blog. Create Post Entries for your Blog completely free, no membership required, can Post to multiple Blogs simultaneously, manage your Posts, works with all major Blog programs, and is easy.
14. Google Docs: Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch.
    All you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online. Invite people to your documents and make changes together, at the same time.
15. Flock: Flock’s built in blogging tool lets you easily blog anything from anywhere. You can add photos from your online photo service, a graphic on your local machine, text from your buddy’s latest post, rich formatting and more. Flock’s built in Blog editor ties it all together quickly and easily leaving you more time to write.
16. Swiftpen: Easy multiple blog posting — just compose your post and select blogs to publish it. Nothing to download, nothing to install. Just start your browser. One-page history of all your blog posts. WYSIWYG post editor — powerful, yet easy to use.
17. Stuffr: Stuffr, a desktop blogging client for Windows, has a streamlined design that works in conjuction with multiple weblog platforms.

This is the fifteenth edition of the Blog Carnival: Blogging.

• Carl Ringwall presents How Useful are Automated Social Bookmarking Tools? posted at Data SystemsPlus.
• Raivyn presents Basic Blog SEO: Niche Blogging Series Part V posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging.
• Tip Diva presents Tip Diva | Top Ten Tips - Editing Your WordPress Blog Layout posted at Tip Diva.
• Dereck presents Traffic and income report - first 60 days (ish) posted at I Will Not Die.
• AndrewB presents 5 SEO Tips - Get BackLinks For Free posted at Personal Hack - SEO Tips.
• Kevin presents Don?t Forget the Last Step in Blogging posted at The Red Stapler Chronicles.
• MoneyNing presents Be Patient with Increasing Traffic to Your Blog posted at Busy Blogging Dot Com.
• Neel presents Top 100 Women?s Health Blogs posted at Nursing School Search Blog.
• Will presents Making Money Online, Ten Things I Wish I Knew As A Beginner posted at Your Finish Rich Plan - A Personal Finance Blog.
• AndrewB presents Blog Carnival Submission Service - Explode Your Traffic posted at Personal Hack - Blog Carnival Submission.
• Rodney Smith presents Bling your blog with free images posted at Hippo Web Solutions.

You can add to this Carnival by sending your post through our contact form or you can also add it by visiting blogcarnival.com and selecting the carnival blogging.

Yahoo! 360° is a personal communication portal operated by Yahoo. It is similar other social networking sites. The features are:

• Blog: You can create a blog with a simple URL. A simple URL is a web address that’s easy to remember and share with friends. When you activate your Simple URL people who know your Yahoo! ID can easily find your Yahoo! 360° page.
• Blast: A blast is displayed at the top of your page near your name. It can be a quick recommendation, a news bit, a hot tip, a link to a favorite image, a cool web site, a wish list item, a punchline, a flavor of the day. It’s any quick thought you want to share with everyone you know or just with a small circle of friends. You can update or edit your blast as often as you like.
• Reviews: Reviews are a way for you to give others recommendations – or not – for products, businesses, and services. You can write a review and post a rating on Yahoo! Travel, Games, Shopping or Local. These reviews will automatically appear on your Yahoo! 360° page. And people who are connected to you in Yahoo! 360° will also know when you update a review.
• Lists: You can create lists of things you like or want to recommend — books, music, movies, TV shows, and more.
• RSS Feeds: If you use Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, or Xanga, or other web services that support feeds, you can display your recent updates and link back to these other web sites in your Feeds module on Yahoo! 360°.
• My page: You can create a page, which will contain the items you have added.

Trendmill is a social networking site for lover of clothes. You can create a free profile and write articles. The features of the site are:

• Entourage: You can add people to your entourage by using the “set relationship” buttons next to others’ profiles throughout the site.
• Gallery: If you want to purchase any items then there is a gallery from where you can pick things.
• Industry profile: You can start an industry profile but you must be a registered business and you have to apply during the sign up process.

Travellerspoint is a nice travel site where you can create a profile. You can start your own free travel website with a Travellerspoint subdomain. For example: username.travellerspoint.com The other features are:

• Diary: Similar to the Travel Blogs, but less powerful and simpler. The diary can be password protected and is good for showing entries only to selected viewers.
• Travel helpers: If you want to be a Travel Helper for a specific country or region you know a lot about, you can sign up.
• Travel Map: You can place your photos on the world map and create detailed trips that show where you’ve been, which will automatically associate with your photos and blog entries. You can can also use the world map for planning the itineraries of your future trips.
• Photo Gallery: Every Travellerspoint member can upload at least 25 MB of photos per month.
• Video Gallery: You can upload your travel videos to include in your travel blog.
• Personal travel cards: Create your own personal travel cards to hand out to other travellers you meet on the road and make sure they can stay in touch with you.

This is the fourteenth edition of the Blog Carnival: Blogging.

• Christopher Johnson presents Blogging With Wordpress posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com.
• Jacob Share presents 78 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers for Your Blog } Group Writing Projects posted at Group Writing Projects.
• Nesher presents Nice Name for your Blog with Domain TK posted at Collection of the Web Freebies.
• Ralph Jean-Paul presents How to Run a Blog Successfully without Having a Computer posted at Potential 2 Success.
• Carl Ringwall presents I Heartily Endorse 3WayLinks To Get Backlinks- Why: posted at Data SystemsPlus.
• Christopher Johnson presents Making Money Blogging posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com.
• Traffic2mypage presents Increase web traffic @ Top 500 One Way Link Directories Sorted By Page Rank - Part II » Traffic2MyPage.com posted at Traffic2MyPage.com.
• Robert Phillips presents 3 Simple Ways to Increase Blog Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.
• Sarah Scrafford presents Top 100 Cutting-Edge Science Blogs posted at X-Ray Technician Schools.
• PersonalHack presents 33 Reasons to Start a Blog posted at Blog Tips - Personal Hack.
• Traffic2mypage.com presents Increase web traffic by diversion setups on Facebook posted at Traffic2MyPage.com.
• PersonalHack presents Top 7 Mistakes to Avoid as A Blogger posted at Personal Hack.
• Farrhad presents Get Quality Backlinks in 30 Minutes! posted at Lets Sermo! ~ Lets Get Talking!.

You can add to this Carnival by sending your post through our contact form or you can also add it by visiting blogcarnival.com and selecting the carnival blogging.

The Heel Press is a Creative Community of artists and writers. You can submit your writings in the categories fiction, poetry, commentary, Interviews, non-fiction, general, parody/satire, song lyrics, screenplay, etc. You can also submit your artwork like photography, drawing, painting, graphic design, sculpture, graffiti art, etc. When you upload a piece of writing to The Heel Press you have two choices: Upload directly to your portfolio or submit to the critique panel. If you submit to the critique panel then only your article has got a chance to be on the first page. If you decide to publish directly to your portfolio then your work will not appear on the Front Page. However, your work will be completely viewable via your profile and can be shared with anyone and everyone from there. You can also participate in the Critique Panel. To submit your critique for a particular artwork or writing you have to rate from 0-10 for the questions provided. You can leave a comment for each specific question during the same process, and you can also leave general comments at the bottom of the page.  For example, the questions will be like “How do you generally rate this fiction piece?”