Death by Blogging Sunday, April 6, 2008
Posted by Roland in Geek Stuff.Tags: blogging
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The New York Times reported on the stress of professional blogging:
Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.
Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.
To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths have them thinking about the dangers of their work style.
Don’t think that I’ll ever get to that point, as a blogger, but the gist of the NYT article is that bloggers who are paid by the click, have to get the story out first, in order to create a buzz and bring in the clicks.
That’s a curious economy, but I suspect that it works.
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