Blogging Will Kill You

I hope you appreciate what we here at this blog do for you. There are plenty of dangerous jobs out there, but did you know that blogging can kill you? Information Week’s Cora Nucci just found out, and she did what any good blogger will do. She blogged about it.

Three well-known tech bloggers have had heart attacks since December, and a story in the New York Times suggests that the high stress of blogging may be a cause.

The article she’s referring to calls the blogosphere “The digital-era sweatshop.” Here’s some more (just in case you’re not signed up at Nytimes.com (and why the fuck aren’t you — it’s free) or just too lazy to click the link and read the whole thing yourself):

A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment.

Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

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.

So see, folks? Blogging is serious business. Leave the posting of barely researched Internet rumors, stupid memes and YouTube videos to the professionals.

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