Bloggers Dropping Dead… Too Much Stress…

Apparently.. Bloggers are dying of strokes and heart attacks all over the WWW… So far most of the deaths and disablements are occuring among those that blog for pay…

Boy am I relieved!!! I don’t make a penny writing LCO… I started it as a way to vent my spleen… But I admit that it sometimes gets to me trying to figure out what to post… But I wouldn’t do it if I someone was riding me to make a deadline…

I’ve given some thought to taking a regular day off… We’ll see…

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop:

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.

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

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.

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