. . . like a candle?

20 Comments to “Bloggy Question 71: Blogging by Candlelight”

1. January 6th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
   Shari Voigt said

   A blog is like a candle when it illuminates a subject. And as it’s adding light (value) to a topic, it’s also casting a soft glow on its author and the blog’s community.

2. January 6th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
   Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business said

   Sometimes they can smell real good — on purpose

3. January 6th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Shari!
   I expecially like the soft glow part.

   Yeah!

4. January 6th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
   jen said

   If you keep staring into the candle’s flame you could be hypnotised. Blogging’s like that. The more time you spend looking at blogs the more hypnotised you are by them.

5. January 7th, 2008 at 4:55 am
   Ritu said

   A blog is like a candle because:

   When a candle looks like its about to die it gets right back up and glows even brighter. Same goes for your blog, when you think it’s never going to go anywhere, that’s exactly when your blog will pick up. So hang in there

6. January 7th, 2008 at 5:46 am
   Alina Popescu said

   A blog is like a candle simply because a candle’s light is not meaningless: it guides us, through a room, to get out of a dark corridor, to help us through bad times with full hours with no electrical light!

   Most blogs I love and read regularly, such as yours, give me the guidance I need at times: a smile, an idea, a hug

   Great question, Liz!

7. January 7th, 2008 at 8:17 am
   Robert Hruzek said

   Interesting question, Liz! I’d like to respectfully submit this post for my answer.

   Still one of my favorites.

8. January 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Shari!
   Blogs do draw us like moths to the flame, don’t they?

   Yeah Ritu!
   Blog relight themselves, when we least expect it. So do bloggers.

   Hi Alina!
   Blogs guide me too, especially when things are feeling dark.

   Robert, that post is one of my favorites too.

9. January 7th, 2008 at 11:25 am
   SunnySchlenger said

   And can you imagine what would happen if everyone lit just a small one?

10. January 7th, 2008 at 11:31 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Sunny,
    I sure can!

11. January 7th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
    Mike said

    The light of a candle is alive and inviting, like the content of a good blog. Not cold and sterile like many other kinds of web content.

12. January 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
    Shari Voigt said

    Alive and inviting … I like that! And it needs a good source of oxygen (ideas) to keep the flame burning bright.

13. January 7th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
    Mike said

    Hi Shari,

    You’re so right about the oxygen (ideas and reader interaction)!

    Mike

14. January 7th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    So put you two together, Mike and Shari,

    and we get light, inviting, and filled with life-giving oxygen!!

    Very cool . . . would you call that . . . um . . . tag team comments?

15. January 7th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
    Mike said

    I’d call it an SOB moment! That stuff happens a lot around here!

16. January 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    An SOB moment . . . I like the sound of that!

17. January 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
    Babyamore (Trish) said

    one candle can light many other candles without diminishing its own power/light … like a blog author can , and the newly lit candle can then do the same …pay it forward

18. January 8th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    I like that thought, Trish. It’s a great description of how we pass on conversations.

    Thank you!

19. March 20th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
    Whoa said

    They don’t call it Enlightenment for nothing, right?

    A blog is like a candle, yes, because it lets you shed light upon stuff (be it how that ice cream was today, a new product you dreamed about, what you think about a particular topic or that song that you heard twenty years ago). It may not be as bright as mainstream media, but it’s a light, and to some it might be the only light they can get their hands to.

    Now, blogs are candles, because they can be brought together to set a mood, or shine brighter when shedding light over the same subject.

    While just using one candle might not make it clear at first, read enough and you will get a more clear picture or enough courage to get some wax, a string and start shedding your own light on it by taking some of the fire that other candles let you have.

20. March 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi whoa!
    Enlightment, exactly!

    My blog has enlighted me in so many ways. Every time a reader comments I find out whether I’m communicating. Every time a post gets no response I realize, I’m probably not.

    When I think about what I write, especially now that I’m feeling poorly, I learn a lot about myself.

    Then there’s the light we shed on the world.

    I like the light you bring here.