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.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Can blogging kill you?
Maybe, maybe not (so far we seem not to have lost anyone), but (via Sullivan) a NY Times article this weekend takes a look at the possibility. Money quote:
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It doesn't surprise me. Blogging and journalims today offers hectic jobs. Even though, I love to write and sometimes - as tonight - I spend my nights writing, I don't think I would like to work with the pressure to which bloggers (and journalists) may be subjected.
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