Heather B. Armstrong
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2011
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Heather Armstrong on reconciling with her family after writing about them on her blog, taking photos of her dog Chuck and her broken Maytag washing machine.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from Design Observer.com. |
| 0:14.0 | On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Heather Armstrong |
| 0:22.0 | about how her career starting as a website designer led to |
| 0:25.2 | her becoming Duce, one of the most famous personal bloggers in the world. |
| 0:29.7 | When I sit down to write, I always feel like, what would I want to talk to my girlfriends about on |
| 0:34.9 | a Friday night if we all sat down to have chips and beer. |
| 0:39.8 | Here's Debbie Milman. Blogging is only about 13 years old, but already it seems like it's been around forever. |
| 0:49.4 | Facebook and Twitter now use up most of the energy that people used to pour into their blogs, which weren't |
| 0:54.8 | read by a lot of people anyway. |
| 0:57.4 | Unless of course you happen to be Andrew Sullivan or Heather Armstrong, whose blog Duce gets over 100,000 daily visitors. |
| 1:06.0 | What do visitors to Duce come to read about? |
| 1:09.0 | Her family, her pets, her favorite music, her experience of depression, and what it's like to live in Salt Lake City as an ex-Morman. |
| 1:17.0 | But really, visitors come because Heather Armstrong is there, waiting with vibrant personal anecdotes and opinions, photos, videos, and links |
| 1:26.3 | to the world beyond. |
| 1:28.2 | She's also written in New York Times best-selling book, It sucked, and then I cried, how I had a baby, a breakdown, and a much-needed margarita. |
| 1:37.0 | Heather Armstrong joins me from her home in Salt Lake City. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome Heather. |
| 1:42.0 | Hello, how are you? Very good. It's great to have you here |
| 1:44.8 | on Design Matters. Thank you. I'm I'm pleased to be here. Well your first |
| 1:49.2 | post on Duce 10 years ago was a poem about carnation milk. It is no longer on the site, but I was |
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