I hope to get the carnival idea going in the next few weeks. Thanks for your patience. If you are interested in hosting the carnival and you haven't already registered your interest please leave a comment.
Thanks for the offers of help. Over the weekend a second idea came to me of how the showcase could be run - as a carnival.
Each week a blogger would volunteer to run the showcase. For the sake of an example, admissions could be opened on Saturday, closing on Thursday. The full post with the showcased entries would be up by the following Monday and then the carnival moves to the next blog.
It would mean work for the host of that week, but in return it would generate extra traffic for the host blog each week.
So what do people prefer? A seperate site (the current method) or a carnival?
UPDATE: I am travelling again from Thursday and will back on Jan 24th. If you are interested in hosting the Showcase Carnival, leave a comment to this post. When I'm back we'll get the ball rolling and see how we go. Any ideas/suggestions/comments welcome. Please help spread the word.
My apologies but the Showcase will remain on hold for a few more weeks. If there are any volunteers who would like to pick it up in the meantime, please leave a comment. It involves only a minimal amount of time to keep it running.