The Red Ensign Standard

Over the last couple of years, I have been involved in the Red Ensign Brigade. The reason for the Brigade can probably best be summed up by this quote from Dust My Broom:

There is no core idealism in the group other than we love our country [Canada] and take pride in its history.

Since mid-2004 (that's a millenia in blog years) the members have been taking turns hosting the Red Ensign Standard, a sort of Carnival of the Canadians. While that might still happen from time to time, an easier way to aggregate the Red Ensign bloggers' posts is now available.

Over the last couple of days, I have put together the Red Ensign Standard blog aggregator as a permanent home for the Standard. On that page is the brigade blogroll, a list of the previous Red Ensign Standards, and an aggregate of the 50 most recent blog posts by the Red Ensign bloggers.

Joining the Red Ensign Brigade

It is easy to join the Red Ensign Brigade. Simply send an email to Nicholas at Quotulatiousness, giving us the name of your blog, your blog URL, and the URL of your blog RSS or Atom feed.

We only consider blogs that have an at least six month track record. After we check out your blog and make sure it isn't spam, our Membership Committee will discuss it and see if it likes what it sees. If the answer is "yes," then Nicholas will add your blog to the blogroll, and he'll provide you with the code to display the blogroll in your sidebar, and I will add your site feed to the Red Ensign Standard blog aggregator.

That's it, that's all there is to it.

If you want to get a little fancier and do the scrolling blogrolls like I have in my sidebar, you can find the necessary code to do that here.

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