An NYT article about the dangers of 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.
But don’t these types of things happen to workaholics in any field? I get the fact that if you fall behind one time with a big time blog someone else will be there to fill in the gap you left, and I suppose that’s stressful (for some people), but these people are the .0001%. Most bloggers are doing it just for fun anyway. The few pennies we get on AdSense here and there is more of a justification validation that we’re actually “working” while we do this than anything. Of course, some of us find a way to turn our blogs into a one-stop-shop for aircraft sales. Then we’re talking about some serious money stupidity.
I am a little worried about someone who posts as feverishly as this guy.
That guy is jacked in in the William Gibson sense.