From a post by @adders, remembering Heather Armstrong:

Already the early days of blogging are being forgotten, and the ability of the web to quietly erase history as sites fail and go offline means that those incredible, exciting, experimental days are being lost. But we shouldn’t forget those who forged the future of digital media, and Heather Armstrong was one of them.

@manton Hers was one of the first blogs I recall following on a feed reader (or even before, when it was all just links to sites we liked).