Mark Lindner is definitely a nominee for Most Valuable Carnival Host. Check out his work at the Carnival of the Infosciences #25. Mark takes a single submission (Thank you, Steve!), rolls it in honey and makes a big ball of sticky liblog goodness out of it. I really enjoyed his admission that "I'm not even sure what Andrea is talking about at points." I laughed because I felt the same way after my first reading of her post "On Tagging People." It's a worthy read though.

Next week, the Carnival welcomes Amanda Robertson as host over at Data Obsessed. Please (pretty please? I hate to beg, but we're hitting rock bottom on the submissions) send your submissions to amanda [at] renji [dot] org by Sunday at 6 PM.

As always, I'm in need of hosts. New and prior hosts are welcome to inquire within via the contact form. Need more info?

Update: I completely forgot to give a big thanks to Blake for selecting the Carnival as one of his 10 Blogs to Read in 2006. Incidentally, there are many other reasons to thank Blake, so let me offer the following unsolicited testimonial: If you are looking for a quality, librarian-friendly webhost, you can do no better than Blake and LISHost. Just trust me on this one.