What's a blog carnival?

I'd never heard of this before today, but now I know.
Blog carnivals - a new online community

This is me, blogmaster at www.money-makingopportunities.comA Blog Carnival is an innovative concept in an online community. There are zillions of blogs, all with various articles on all sorts of topics. A typical blog carnivals will collect links pointing to blog articles on a certain topic. A Blog Carnival is a bit like a magazine, in tt has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and a receptive audience. Editions of the carnival are published at regular intervalss (e.g. every week, or oevery month). Each one is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, together with the editor's opinions.

There is so much stuff in the blogosphere, it's getting harder to find what you want, so if there is a carnival on a topic you are interested in, following that carnival is a great way to learn what bloggers are saying about your interest. If you are blogging on that topic, the carnival is the place where you can share your blog with like-minded bloggers.

The easy way to submit to a blog carnival is by using an automatic submitter, such as: Carnival Submitter