How has blogging changed lives?

How has blogging changed lives?

: Please leave comments about bloggers whose lives have changed in major ways because of their blogs (doesn’t matter whether you know the bloggers).

A reporter from a big magazine asked me for examples of “people whose blog has negatively affected their life” (e.g., getting fired for blogging). I replied that I couldn’t think of any but I sure could think of people whose lives had changed postively because of their blogs — bloggers who now do this for a living, bloggers who became famous, bloggers who are changing the world. This good reporter convinced her editor to include this in the story. And so I volunteered to ask you all for suggestions.

So please leave comments with ideas. (Don’t embarrass me by saying nothing!)