After succumbing to intrusive demands of corporate sponsors,including putting her children in her blog Dooce, Heather Armstrong had had enoughIn a farewell post on her blog Dooce, and Heather Armstrong exposed her readers to the wearisome and often grim reality of her life as the so-called Queen of the Mommy Bloggers one dominated by hours on the phone with corporate sponsors,a security system set up to deal with abusive commenters, and rubberneckers who “throw rocks at our houses”.“‘Living online’ for us looks completely different now than it did when we set out to build this community, and the emotional and physical toll of it is rapidly fitting a health hazard,” she wrote.
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Source: theguardian.com