BlogHer - Newsflash: Heather Armstrong to speak (and celebrate her birthday) at BlogHer '08 - Comments

Cool!

Musing — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:01:13 -0500

Wish I could be there!

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It's my birthday weekend too!

kikadesa — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:32:57 -0500

How exciting, I'll get to celebrate with some of the most amazing bloggers ever!

Jessica
http://www.roseslife.blogspot.com

Welcome back to Heather

Rita Arens — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:57:58 -0500

I've always been very impressed with Heather's extreme approachability. I'm happy she'll be back!

Surrender, Dorothy - When I was your age, we just let them ride in the back window.

Yay!

amommystory — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:48:36 -0500

I saw Heather speak at BlogHer '06, and I really appreciated her point of view. Two years later, this idea of living The Truman Show is becoming more and more real for me, so I can't wait to attend this session!

Christina
A Mommy Story

Great news

Virginia DeBolt — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:41:33 -0500

and to think that I had my reservation in BEFORE I heard it.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Amen Arse

Lisa Stone — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:45:04 -0500

Oh how I loved typing that headline. Wonderful description of Heather - I agree!

And I really really hope you can make it out this year. Would be great to hang out again.

Best,
Lisa

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Sparksfley, steel yourself...

Lisa Stone — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:42:53 -0500

...to clink glasses with 999 other women (and men) who blog too. This is going to be fun! Look forward to meeting you.

Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette

Yaay!

arse poetica — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:39:16 -0500

Saw Dooce @ the inaugural BlogHer and then at her SXSW keynote the next year. She's funny, always thoughtful, a great panelist/interview/keynoter. Still working on being able to get there this year. Will do my best!

ae
arse poetica

My bad...typo in headline :(

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:19:10 -0500

I didn't just mess up the date, I had a typo in the headline. And fixing it changes the URL. Oh the humanity! My big post for the week, and I screwed it up twice!!!

Sorry.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

Personal blogging hits the closing session!

Liz Rizzo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:16:39 -0500

Rock on, I absolutely can't wait. :D

Liz Rizzo

I blog at Everyday Goddess.

FABULOUS

sparksfley — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:11:39 -0500

I cannot tell you how excited I am to be going to BlogHer this year - finally. And since I've been reading Dooce since about the time she got married... I'm even more excited.

I've yet to meet a blogger in person. Color me terrified.

Michele
Sparks and Butterflies
Special Needs Parent
Stars Behind Bars

Link error in Feed

Elizabeth@Table for Five — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:44:55 -0500

I subscribe to this feed in Bloglines, and when I clicked the link in the feed, it went to a 404 error page. Thought you'd like to know ;)

Elizabeth
Table for Five
MomReviews
MomCooks
Getting My Blog On

Great catch Uncommonality!

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:42:19 -0500

You are right, and my fingers were moving too fast this morning. I have corrected to the 19th.

Sorry for the little heart attack everyone :)

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

This is exciting, but July

Uncommonality — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:38:45 -0500

This is exciting, but July 29th? Did the dates of the BlogHer SF Conf change? I thought the main conference is July 18-20...

http://uncommonality.wordpress.com/

Newsflash: Heather Armstrong to speak (and celebrate her birthday) at BlogHer '08

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:22:10 -0500

Hot on the heels of her quadruple-win at the 2008 Weblog Awards, I am pleased to announce that Heather Armstrong (aka Dooce) is returning to BlogHer '08 this July in San Francisco.

Heather was part of the very first BlogHer "Naked" session at the inaugural conference in 2005, and spoke about the ups, downs and late nights of monetizing your blog in 2006.

In 2008, with her first book being released in April (along with other impending opportunities yet to be announced) Heather will be part of BlogHer '08's closing general session discussion about what it's like "Living the Truman Show*."

Bloggers everywhere are putting their lives online...and now into other media too. We'll talk to Heather about how it feels to put yourself under that microscope. Heather may live it on a bigger scale than most of us, but haven't you experienced some or all of these symptoms?

Parts of life get nearly fictionalized in your own head as you plan your next blog post about events happening in real-time

People confuse you with a character and forget you're a real human being

As your friends, co-workers and family become more aware of your blog they either get caught up in it all...or get more and more uncomfortable.

The session will take place on Saturday July 19th, which just happens to be Heather's actual birthday. (I'm seeing a mass singalong in her future, what do you think?)

Stay tuned, as this is just the first of many announcements to come about BlogHer '08 programming!

Earlybird registration is still in effect through March 31st, 2008, for more info go here.

*The Truman Show was a movie from 1998 about a man who discovers his "life" is actually a reality TV show that the entire world is watching. Hmmm...sounds like how I felt the first time I wrote something snarky about a public figure...and they actually sent me an email complaining about it! Here I thought I was the only one in the world tracking with ego-feeds!