Lets just put it out there.
Dooce is one of the webs most famous mom bloggers with an estimated $40K a month coming from ads on her website. We have blogged about her a few times in jest and a few times in irritation, but love her or hate her, it’s her personal empire of brand that impresses me personally.
So……..are you a Dooce Lover? Or a Dooce Hater.
(ah hem, the blog, not the person)
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i’ve been reading for 7 years. not a mommy. she’s got me. her irreverence is what i dig.
she actually does interact and she does use her blogging powers for good, that is a very uneducated statement to make. she constantly posts items purchased on etsy with a link to the shop and within hours, that shop is sold clean out. she helped me many years ago realize i wasn’t alone in an eating disorder and she responded to my email personally!
she’s real, she doesn’t bulls*it, and she tells it like it is and she doesn’t apologize if you don’t agree. and she’s funny. met her last week at her book reading (ny times best seller, btw) and she was so genuine and truly thankful for her readers. when you get that big you can’t turn comments on 24/7. go back and find the many posts where she does decide to allow them – thousands upon thousands of comments. you have to manage your time somehow – and face it – she is the considered the original blogger, reluctant, in her words, to be called a mommy blogger. she’s just sharing her life with the rest of us – whether it’s leta, pregnancy, the dogs or her marriage. and the day she stops i will be a sad girl.
I just finished watching the show. Funny how she was thanking all her readers for helping her and yet she never once mentioned that she does NOTHING to connect with them in any way.
I still have yet to find ONE thing in any of her blog posts that makes her “Queen of the Mommy Bloggers”. I just don’t get it. I am pretty honest on my site regarding the trials of Mommyhood, but you don’t see me making 40k/month. I just don’t get it.
I think Trisha is way better than Dooce, anyway.
I read her, she’s famous-ish, but of course there’s no contact with the blogging world…anymore. Maybe when she was fresh and new she’d network, but now she’s untouchable…come on, Twitter or something. Comment on a Noob’s blog…inspire us to like you at least! If I was making 40K a month, I’d still come to MomDot!
I have only heard of her a few times and hadn’t been till her site til I came here. hmph. whatever.
Heather has a distinct style of writing that appeals to millions of people…obviously! I admire the way she expresses herself so eloquently. I wish I could write like that!
The only gripe I really have is the way she closes herself off from her audience, i.e., comments closed, not responding to emails, etc.
If everyone stopped reading her blog tomorrow, her rating on Technorati would diminish and so would her reported $40K month in advertising.
Soooo, HEATHER, I think you need to appreciate and show a little love to the rest of your sistahs. Don’t be so tight-lipped with the secrets, help the rest of us by giving a shout out to a new mommyblogger once in awhile. Drive some of that traffic our way. It certainly won’t take anything away from you or what you have created. THANKS!
She is always cursing, I just think she is inappropriate.
I’m with Cat. I think it’s too impersonal. I look there and feel no connection to her. I honestly felt annoyed where she made the comment about the woman looking at her funny at the airport. IMO for 28 weeks she barely looked pregnant! Needless to say but I won’t be going back to her site.
I admit I read Dooce pretty much daily, and she was one of the first blogs I ever looked at. I think she is a great writer. And I think she’s done some great things for moms in terms of her honesty when she was going through some really rough times mentally with postpartum depression, etc.
However, I also don’t like the closed comments idea. I think she’s very closed off, doesn’t respond to her readers, and is very aloof and cold.
I actually emailed her to ask her about blogging, and see if she could share any ideas with me to help me get started. I’m still waiting for a response. Maybe I was a little naive, but I don’t think so.
All in all, I like her enough, though.
I’ve been reading Heather’s blog going on two years now, and I gotta say, I LOVE her. And now that she is expecting her second baby and is on book tour talking about her experience with postpartum depression, I think her blog has definitely veered back into the “mom blog” category. She turns her comments on for a post every now and then (you have to keep your eye out), but as far as being very intimate with her readers, I hardly expect it from her because she just doesn’t come across as being a very “warm and fuzzy” person to me – plus it would be impossible for anyone to try to connect individually with the thousands and thousands of people who visit her blog everyday.
As far as the quality of her blog goes, I think her writing is smart and honest – she also does some amazing photography and graphic design (she designs a new header every month). But she occasionally even strikes me as being a little too sarcastic and irreverent, and I do think that media should switch the spotlight to some of the other really fantastic mom bloggers out there who also have great things to say.
So, yes, I’m a fan!
I feel so much better knowing that I’m not the only one that has the same feelings about her. I thought I would be jeered by any blogger, if I mentioned I really don’t care for Dooce. I really did try, but her way of blogging just rubbed me the wrong way. I’m sure she would be first to point out and say “If you don’t like it, don’t read it.” I for one don’t.
This is my first time reading and hearing about this internet mom. She seems like a good person to me. I would sure like to learn how she earns 40k a month on just internet ads.
She cracks me up, I’m not going to lie.
HOWEVER, it is a turn off to me that she closes her comments. Why does she do this? I realize she gets gazillions of comments and that she probably wouldn’t even read them all. But still. She should leave the comments OPEN.
When I see Comments Closed I almost feel like a door has been slammed on me. As though the person is all, “I could give a rat’s arse what you have to say. Kthxbai!”
I respect her. She really is a pioneer for mommy bloggers. But I don’t think her blog is all that, and she’s more a celebrity now than a blogger. I think she needs to step down from the thrown and make room for a new generation.
I tried to read her for a while but we all know if you aren’t entertaining me I’m not coming back. I haven’t been back. Just one more person who is famous for being average in my book.
Wait….she’s a mom????!!!!
LOL!
I didn’t do the poll because I’m conflicted. I think she’s awesome for succeeding with her blog and I commend her for it. Also, she IS a great writer and if I’m being honest the few posts of hers that I’ve read definitely drew me in. I envy both of those things in a non catty way-lol. On the other hand, her blog is very impersonal. I don’t like that she has her comments off and I don’t feel a sense of “community” from her. On Oprah and that other interview with Viera, she made it seem (at least to me) that she does interact with moms on the web and her readers. Seems hypocritical and dishonest.
Ive looked at her blog on several occasions and outside of some decent photography, I truthfully don’t get her. Maybe I am sheltered, but like Cat said very very impersonal and not much like a blog at all. But I wouldn’t mind a fraction of the money!
Yeah, she’s huge. I commend her for turning her life into an empire. But she’s untouchable…unresponsive. There’s a lot of moms out there who could only wish for a nod from someone like Dooce to help them get a new business or something off the ground. Some of us work incredibly hard and we’ll never get that lucky break/nod whatever from anyone. Such is life.
I don’t consider a blogger who doesn’t interact on social media (you can follow her but she’s not going to engage in a conversation except via her blog) and doesn’t use her blogging powers for good (at least not that I have ever been aware) a fellow mom blogger. But, I’m a newbie. What do I know?
I had to be honest and go with a dislike on this one. I don’t know her personally but the posts are a bit scattered and almost seem impersonal to me and comments are closed. When I read a blog I want to get to know and interact with the person, you can’t do that with her.