Traveling Thoughts

In the book that I’m reading for English Class, there’s a quote:

“To blog successfully, you must start out opinionated. Pigheaded is good.”^[1]

One of my most favorite blogs is an extremely successful blog.  Dooce has been around for a while now, and I’ve been reading it for about 3 years.  What initially attracted me to this site or how I found it, I don’t recall.

Heather B. Armstrong, the author of the site is extremely opinionated.  But the thing that’s more enjoyable than her opinions is the opinions of others that she posts quarterly.  If she goes through a period of un-opinionated time where the majority of her posts revolve around her daughter Leta, people will let her know what they think.  They’ll tell of why they used to come to her site and that the only reason they now visit is to see if she’s posted anything of interest other than her daughter or lately, the “War of the Clogs” that she’s waging with her husband (which is pretty funny if you ask me).

Heather is such a successful blogger, and maybe more importantly a female blogger that she’s been featured in magazines, she speaks at conferences, participates in interviews and she’s got more readers than some newspapers.  She’s a blogbrity and one of the top ones.  She and her husband (to our knowledge) live off the success of her blog.

I’d have to be pretty high on myself to think that one day I may have a blog as popular as hers.  But one can always dream ;)

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