Tag: DOOCE

When asked what we do for work, we often wince before saying, "I'm a blogger." It's because, for most folks, the term likely describes a twenty-something nerd who lives in his mother's basement, collects unemployment, and writes in his LiveJournal about black metal bands. Thanks to the New York Times' profile of Heather Armstrong, though, "blogger" might soon mean an independently wealthy media ...

We have to hand it to mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, of Dooce fame. She beat us to the punch. We've been tossing around the idea of rounding up our favorite hate-ments on Switched for some time now, but have never actually acted on it. Armstrong, who recently made it to number 26 on Forbes's list of the most influential women in media, decided to assemble the piles of hateful, nasty comments ...