Southern Blog Federation

A union of bloggers from the southern United States.

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Carnival of the Magnolias I

Welcome, readers, to the first ever Carnival of the Magnolias. It is my pleasure, as your host, to bring you some of the very best from the southern portion of the blogosphere!

We start things off In Tennessee with a wonderful post by Poopie where she answers the question: What's a b**g?

From there we move on to North Carolina and Justin Thibault's blog where he discusses local government failings in the area's jail expandment process.

We head on over to West Virginia where Don Surber points out an interesting and funny article about the stupidity of the term "metrosexual."

Next it's on to Texas where Vikingjuice makes a heartfelt post after finding out the Astros made it to the World Series. Too bad they fell short to the Sox.

We hit the road again where we go back to North Carolina as Longstreet of INSIGHT on Freedom gives us some great info on the illegal immigration problem in the southwestern U.S. Ever heard of Aztland? You'd better read his post.

We head up to Virginia and Norman Leahy's blog, One Man's Trash, where he points out the dirty underhanded tricks of the Democratic candidate, Tim Kaine, in Virginia's governor's race.

Reb Chaim HaQoton makes some interesting observations in his two part entry about morals and murder in Judaism. Read Part I here and part II here.

Finally, to wrap things up this week, we head back to West Virginia where Don Surber debunks the idea that the drug war is a waste of time.

Well, all in all I'd say we had a very good initial Carnival. It was truly a pleasure to read all of the fantastic entries this week. I'll be hosting next week's Carnival of the Magnolias as well. If you're a blogger from the Southern United States and have an interesting post to submit, take a look here and submit your post!

Cross posted at Everyman Chronicles

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Introducing Carnival of the Magnolias

The Carnival of the Magnolias is the official blog carnival of the Southern Blog Federation. You don't have to be a member of the community to submit your article but you must be from one of the states which we recognize as being a part of "the south."

The purpose of this carnival is to highlight the best and brightest posts of the week written by southern bloggers from around the blogosphere.

Each week the carnival will be hosted either here, on the Southern Blog Federation homepage, or on one of the blogs from the SBF.

The Carnival will be posted each week on either Sunday night or Monday. Entries are due by Sunday night at 7 PM EST. If you're interested in submitting the easiest way is through the Carnival Submit Form. If you'd rather not use the form you can email your request to southern dot league at gmail dot com. Please include your name, a permalink to the specific entry, the entry title, a short description of the entry, your trackback uri (if you have one), and, if not already a member of the SBF, annotate your home state in the submission.

The first Carnival will be posted on October 31st at Everyman Chronicles.

If you are interested in hosting this carnival in the future, email me at everyman dot blog at gmail dot com.


Special thanks to Brad from The Unrepentant Individual for suggesting the name.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

What is the Southern Blog Federation?

Everyone blogs for a reason. Usually every blogger writes in hopes that people (preferably a lot of them) will actually read their weblog. The Southern Blog Federation is a community of southern bloggers who wish to have their voices heard. If you're interested, here are our guidelines:

Mission
Our mission is to help those bloggers residing in the southern United States by generating traffic and readership to the various blogs within the SBF.

How Can I Join?
In order to join the Southern Blog Federation you must meet the following:

1.Members must currently reside in, or be a resident of, one of the following states in the U.S.:

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Lousiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia


2. Members must own or write for a blog. In cases where blogs have multiple authors, one of those authors must meet the criteria of rule 1.

3. Members will be required to display the Southern Blog Federation blogroll as well as a link back to this blog on their own weblog.

If your blog fits within the listed criteria you may request to join the community. Send an email to everyman dot blog at gmail dot com with your name, your blog's title, state of residency, and blog url. Make the subject of the email "FEDERATION JOIN REQUEST." Once your blog has been reviewed (less than 24 hours) you'll be added to the blogroll and sent the code to place on your site.

Southern Blog Federation

The initial post for the Southern Blog Federation.