Laurence Simon is burned out on all the carnivals and other meta-blogs and has stopped reading them. Craig Henry, though, thinks they’re useful:
As the number of blogs keep growing, readers (including other bloggers) need some way to sort through them and discover new ones– especially blogs that tackle subjects not covered by Instapundit and blogs that weren’t around two years ago.
I don’t see the harm in the proliferation of the meta blogs and even occasionally submit entries to them to increase visibility of posts that have disappeared into the archives.
Like Laurence, though, I seldom actually read them anymore. On a good week, Carnival of the Vanities has 70-odd links. It would take me all day to go through them and, since there is no culling process, I don’t find it worth the effort. But if it gets new blogs some readers, that’s all good.
