The first edition of the Humanist Symposion is out. I just noticed it, and wanted to promote it here immediately; I haven’t read its articles (except for those who also appeared in Planet Atheism) yet.
Unfortunately, I ended up not participating in this one. 
Lack of time, and laziness, mostly. Maybe the next one…
I’ve never participated in a blog carnival before, mostly due to laziness, but this one may just be too interesting to pass up.
If you’re not familiar with the term, a blog carnival is when a blogger invites other bloggers to write about a particular subject, and then links to (and usually writes a synopsis of) the submitted posts. In effect, it becomes like a single issue of a magazine, with several contributors. Carnivals also tend to be have new “editions” periodically, which makes the “magazine” metaphor even more appropriate.
A popular atheism-related one is the Carnival of the Godless. However, Ebonmuse, author of the wonderful Daylight Atheism blog and the Ebon Musings collection of essays, has noticed a trend in most atheism posts and blogs: we spend too much time writing negatively about religion (what’s wrong with it, debunking myths, spotting contradictions and atrocities in the Bible, denouncing the actions of some of the worst theists, and so on), and too little writing positively about being free from religion. So he’s created a new one: The Humanist Symposium.
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