The Blender of Love is a website. Or, more accurately a web community similar to the community of e2. This website (www.loveblender.com) is focused on poetry and prose as it pertains to romantic love. The community is encouraged to post stories, poems or works of art to the site. The keeper of the site Kirk Israel, quite a poet and writer in his own right, breaks all of the posts down and creates monthly digests and chooses a few of his favorites which get spotlight features on the main page. The site also features random quotes, interesting interviews, diatribes and essays that get updated on a monthly basis. There are literally thousands of posts, mostly poems, so they are organized (by the respective posters) into one of several predetermined catagories.
The community is not as monitored or edited as e2. There is no attempt to link posts, or to make the site a database of knowlege. It is simply a place where people go and post their feelings and tell their stories.
There is a message board, so the blender-users can chit chat about things and comment on one anothers work. There is some serious talent at loveblender. I have made it part of my daily routine to hit the site and scan the posts for my favorite authors a few times a day.
The only thing that really annoys me about the site is that there is no standard for quality. Every post gets into the list of current posts. A year or so ago when I first found loveblender, there were much fewer people posting, and a much higher concentration of damn good work. It seems that lately every third post is poorly and hurriedly done, full of spelling mistakes and errors. There is also no mechanism for editing a post once it is on the site, so you really have to make sure it is perfect before you post it.
There is no ranking or point system. Which is nice really. You aren't going to get downvoted. your work just becomes part of the overall picture. No criticism. Its just there.
I see e2 and loveblender as two completely different things, and I certainly could not imagine abandoning one for the other. I do think anyone who enjoys the more creative, less informative side of e2 would be interested in also experiencing a less controlling, albiet less organized and quality-controlled setting. | 
