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

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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.

Read all article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

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Very sad. I feel sorry for them. I think, that professional blogging is like any other job or profession or sport or show business. If you really want to be the best, you need to pay the price. I think, there is no really big difference between professional blogging and professional business. But, that was certainly to high a price.