Warning: Blogging May Increase Risk of Death
Put forth on May 21, 2008 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Blogging, Misc
From the New York Times (h/t to lambert of Corrente)
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.
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.
Of course, I will be fine because it seems to only affect paid bloggers.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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you better not die on me, xp!!
take a break!
Sitting on our butts, not eating correctly and not earing enough to get health insurance in the U.S.?
I wonder what the problem could be.
glad you aren’t going anywhere!
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