Fired from her job because of her blog in 2002, Armstrong has written deeply, personally and with a big, strong community about matters ranging from religion to mental health to family. Her blog saw more than 4 million pageviews last month. A year ago she landed a gig with Home and Garden TV.
Armstrong made a very personal post on her blog yesterday about its 10th anniversary. The post has received more than 4,600 comments. The following are excerpts of what she said to me by phone.
On what it felt like to start blogging:"I'd made websites for other people for years and I knew what it was like to launch them. I felt like even though a couple dozen people were going to read it, like I was publishing my own little home made magazine. I was talking about music, and television and dating. I remember feeling invigorated by it, writing and designing it. I sent it to 12 friends and said if you guys want to keep up with me, this is how you can.
10 years blogging is long time. I'm not sure what the "book years" equivalent of that is, but blogging consistently for 10 years is not easy.
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