CNN —Heather Armstrong, an influential writer whose blog Dooce helped popularize mommy blogging, has died, her partner, Pete Ashdown, confirmed to CNN.
“Heather B. Hamilton (Armstrong) was a brilliant, funny, compassionate writer who struggled with mental-health and alcoholism,” Ashdown said in a statement to CNN.
In 2004, Dooce became the first personal website to start accepting a notable number of paid ads, the New York Times said.
Toward the end of her life, Armstrong was characteristically frank with readers about her struggles with alcoholism.
“Calling Dooce a mommy blogger was always an inadequate description of her breadth, her style and her early influence on blogging,” New York Times reporter Katie Rogers tweeted.