Blog Carnivals Offer Another Way to Stay Ahead of Information Overload

Information overloaded? You're certainly not alone. It's almost impossible to keep up with all there is to read and now, with podcasts, listen to. (That's why I'm still ignoring podcasts: I still like to sleep a few hours a night.)

Blog search engines are all organized differently, and none, in my opinion, is particularly robust. I have 125 blogs in my Bloglines RSS feeds, and many days I don't get to all of them. I read three newspapers a day, and get a hundred newsletters and magazines. Arggh!

Now there are blog carnivals trying to keep up with posts and blogs within narrow subject areas. Basically, a blogger hosts a moderated aggregate blog like Anita Campbell's Carnival of the Capitalists or the one for NYC fashion week.

If were a VC, I'd be looking at better ways to search, rate and quantify blogs.

hat tips to Joan Stewart and Tris Hussey