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I've recently learned the value and importance of submitting to carnival's in order to get as many links on as many sites as possible.  I've also noticed that several bloggers do a weekly roundup of posts that they've read, which also includes links.  DQYDJ.net has a good one that they call "DQYDJ The Weekender."

At first, I wondered how they remember everything they've read all week, then go back and create links for all of it.  Then it hit me, duh!  The easiest way to do this is to create a new document at the beginning of the week, and add to it throughout the week as you read through other blogs.  I want to start doing something like this on my blog, but have one question…

Would it be OK to call my weekly roundup a carnival?  Obviously it is not a traditional carnival, as in nobody submits their posts to be included.  But the appearance of my roundup post will be very similar to a carnival.  I was thinking about calling it something like, "Carnival of Random Ramblings," since my site is RamblingFever.com.  If this would be frowned upon, I guess I could go with, "Roundup of Random Ramblings."  Any thoughts?

Why call it a carnival? Though really, you could call it anything you want.

One way I keep track of great articles throughout the week is to clip them in Evernote.

I agree with the earlier comments. Calling it a carnival would be confusing, but calling it a round up needs no additional explanation.

Thanks everybody, as always, for your input.  A roundup it will be.  

Posted my first attempt at a roundup today.  Here it is http://money.ramblingfever.com…..lings.html

Tell me what I can do to improve it.  Hopefully, next week I will also have a section for carnivals that featured my posts.  Trying to submit to a bunch of carnivals this weekend.

It's your blog. You can call it whatever you want, as long as you define somewhere what they mean. No one should dictate what you name in the title of your posts except you.

@PK – thanks.  I actually already stumbled upon Suba's post about carnival's and bookmarked it for future reference.

@Charles – good point.  Normally, I am a "go against the grain" kind of guy, but in this case I wanted to see what would be most acceptable and least confusing in the blogging community.

@ Penny – interesting insight.  Makes sense.  I will always try to keep my RRR's interesting and full of useful links.