The Carnival of Journalism has completed it's first year as of Jan 2012, and has been really useful on many fronts. For me it's been a great motivator to write, because there's a guaranteed audience of like-minded professionals right out of the bag, and the roundup links are nice for SEO traffic too ;)

Last month I wrote a post in response to the Dec 2011 carnival question: "What's on your journalism tech wishlist for developers?" -- my post mentioned a proposed workflow to collect valuable semantic data from investigative researchers using Zotero, and I ended up getting tech advice on accessing the API, as well as a personal comment from the director of the Zotero project himself! Not baaad!

http://futuresoup.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-semantic-metadata   &lt;--the post