Blogging May Be Hazardous To Your Health

If you are prolific blogger with dollars attached to your blog, please take a step back and take care of your health. The constant pressure of keeping your blog updated to ensure reader loyalty which in turn could translate to ad revenues from your site has serious health and stress consequences. There have been reports of high profile bloggers getting stressed out and suffering health set backs in recent times. More on this here.

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.

Here is a humorous take on this serious issue.