Blog carnivals are meant to be a collection of posts from other blogs on a specific topic, but what about a Carnival of You?  What about putting together a bunch of your favorite links from your own blog, and slapping a Carnival moniker on it?

Why not?

Clever Dude has done this as a way of rounding out the year and for highlighting his best work.  Today saw the 2008 Carnival of Clever Dude, with all of the best and most clever things on the topic of, well, Clever Dude.

This is a cool idea to do once in a whle.  Once a year certainly isn’t too much.  Maybe even once every six months.  Much more often that and you risk appearing like an egotist.  Strangely, though, it seems like bloggers can get away with reviewing their best work more often if it’s billed as “digging into the vaults” or “one year ago today.”  Other bloggers do this to good effect.  But there’s something about spotlighting yourself in a Carnival that is a bit over the top, and gets old if done too often.

Anyway, consider whether it’s worth your while highlighting a Carnival of You.  It could be fun!

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