Necessary Roughness

Dan the Geologist, while under the weather, has posted the seventieth edition of the Lutheran Carnival. The Carnival is going to take a break of undetermined length after this edition.

It’s been a nice run of about 1-1/2 years, a millennium as far as things on the Internet go. The first necessity of the Carnival, to highlight posts you may not see because checking on hundreds of Lutheran blogs is a royal pain, has largely been dealt with by RSS readers.

I enjoyed working on it, though in the end the reward was dwindling in the face of the effort. We weren’t meeting new blogs any more. We weren’t getting participation in the discussion posts on the mother site. When people’s posts were cited on the carnivals, they often didn’t link back to the carnival and spread the word. And we were running out of Lutheran church fathers and famous people.

It’s cool to give the site a rest. Maybe it will come back with a different focus, fresh blood, or something. We are not going to delete the blog. It will always be there as a history of who was whom in the Lutheran blogosphere at those times.