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Dooce is the A pseudonym is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ...pseudonym of Heather Armstrong (July 19, 1975 - ) is a humorist who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...Heather Armstrong ( July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ...July 19, 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...1975 _ ), a A humorist is an author who specializes in short, humorous articles or essays. ...humorist who resides in The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_day Saints is Salt Lake Citys top tourist draw. ...Salt Lake City, Utah.


Armstrong (nee. Hamilton) grew up in State nickname: Volunteer State Other U.S. States Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Governor Phil Bredesen Official languages English Area 109,247 km² (36th)  _ Land 106,846 km²  _ Water 2,400 km² (2. ...Tennessee, and majored in English at This is an article on a university; for the German airport (IATA_Code BYU) see Bindlacher Berg Airport. ...Brigham Young University in Provo is a Utah city about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City. ...Provo, Utah.


In 2002, Hamilton ignited a fierce debate about Privacy is the ability of a person to control the availability of information about and exposure of him_ or herself. ...privacy issues when she was fired from her job as a Web design is the design or designing of a web page, website or web application. ...web designer for writing In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...parodies of her experiences at a Dot_com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ...dot_com (1) Startup (or start_up, aka System startup) refers to the short period of time, or system state a computer is in, immediately after switching it on. ...startup on her This article is about a type of web application. ...weblog, Dooce.com (http://www.dooce.com/). The headlines gave rise to the slang expression "dooced"  (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dooced&r=f): "to lose one’s job because of one’s website."


Armstrong returned to Salt Lake City, where she writes on the topics of A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ...pregnancy, Parenthood is a 1989 film starring Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Dennis Dugan, Mary Steenburgen, Paul Linke, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Martha Plimpton, and Keanu Reeves. ...parenthood, web design and the The Salt Lake City temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_day Saints is the largest attraction in the citys Temple Square. ...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter_day Saints.


She has appeared on NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not_for_profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ...National Public Radio and ABC Radio National is an Australia_wide radio network with many various programs, involving news and current affairs, arts, music, society, science, drama, comedy. ...ABC Radio National, and has been interviewed by the The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...New York Times.


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Popular Blogger Dooce Settles Lawsuit - Associated Content (429 words)
In fact, it was Dooce’s ultra-personal blog and insightful ramblings about her colleagues and life in delicious minute detail that got her fired in the first place.
Dooce’s dad didn't speak to her for three months, her mother was crushed and Heather was ashamed.
Whether the melee was actually due to Dooce being reassigned an editor at Kensington, or the “nerve-wracking” lack of contact Dooce reportedly experienced with the publisher remains to be seen, or blogged, as the case may be.
Heather Armstrong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (293 words)
Armstrong explains that "Dooce" came from her inability to quickly spell "dude" during IM chats with her former co-workers.
Armstrong was raised a Mormon in Tennessee, and majored in English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1997 before moving to Los Angeles, California to work.
Armstrong's domain name has since become an internet neologism: to be "dooced" is to lose your job as a result of something you wrote in an online journal.
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