The "love and words" blog is distributed on over 14 sites and has approximately 35,000 readers per month. At first, I did not allow comments to be posted and chose to reply to comments in blog posts or answered them with emails. 

As the creator of a public blog, I have a responsibility for its content and was learning how to moderate without undue censoring.

After over a year of blogging, I have learned a great deal.  One of the things I learned is that someone on one site may be talking about something that someone on another site would be very interested in reading but chances of them leaving their communities was small.  We tend not to participate in a global internet community but to recreate our own small worlds online with only slight variations.

And so was born "the little flower".  On five of the sites that host my blog - myspace, curve, cultvault, bravenet and blogger - I have created an alternate profile called "the little flower".  With this profile I can copy and cross post comments from other sites to that one.

So if you see the flower, you know the words that follow are from someone from somewhere else, thinking along the same lines.