[NetBehaviour] Digital Citizens: The blogger

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*Digital Citizens: The blogger*

By Darren Waters
BBC News entertainment reporter

All this week the BBC News website is speaking to people whose 
creativity has been transformed in the digital age. From blogging to 
podcasting, millions of ordinary people are becoming writers, 
journalists, broadcasters and film-makers thanks to increasingly 
affordable and accessible tools.

"I realised how big blogging had become when I was fired," says 
30-year-old blogger Heather Armstrong.

"My traffic went through the roof and the blogging community went mad," 
she adds.

Ms Armstrong is a blog celebrity - if there is such a thing. Her blog, 
Dooce, became well-known when she was fired from her job in Los Angeles 
for writing about her colleagues.

"I was naive. I was writing these caricatures of my colleagues. I was 
working in a cold, dark office doing a job that had nothing to do with 
the product we were making.

"I didn't think anyone would be reading it."

more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4683815.stm
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