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With 1.5 million readers a month, Heather Armstrong's website, Dooce.com, might very well be the most popular personal blog on the Internet. Dooce began in 2001 and rose to infamy after Armstrong became one of the first bloggers fired for writing about her employer on the Internet. But now that she is a self-employed, stay-at-home mother, most of her entries are about her family. In 2004 Armstrong gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Leta, and she used her blog to chronicle her pregnancy, postpartum depression, and all the little things that...
Your blog is enormously popular. It supports your entire family and is your main source of income. Is that weird? Sometimes, when I think about it. I'll go to a Bruce Springsteen concert and there will be 30,000 people in the audience and I'll think, multiply that by 50 and that's how many people are reading my website. It's very strange to conceptualize because I very rarely meet them in person. When I do it's humbling. (See the 25 best blogs...
Beloved (read: loveably crazy) strength coach Craig Fitzgerald moved on from the Crimson in January to join the old ball coach at University of South Carolina as head of strength and conditioning for the football program. The popular coach's departure disappointed many of Harvard's athletes, but the opportunity to work with a bigtime SEC football program was lost on no one. For those curious about what Fitz is up to now, it seems that the energetic trainer is already becoming infamous at his new school. Details after the jump...
...Show co-anchor Matt Lauer will address the Class of 2009 on Class Day, the Senior Class Committee announced yesterday. Lauer joins a heterogeneous group of past speakers including Ben S. Bernanke ’75 last year, Bill Clinton in 2007, and Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the popular cartoon “Family Guy,” in 2006. The Class Day speaker typically delivers a more light-hearted address to the College’s graduating senior class than the Commencement Day speech, which is given to all University graduates the next day. Senior class First Marshal...
Guardian Goes All-Twitter Guardian.co.uk "Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.... The move, described as 'epochal' by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit the format of Twitter's brief text messages, known as 'tweets,' which are limited to 140 characters each.... [April Fools...