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10 April 2008
Blogging to exhaustion
Commercial bloggers are increasingly complaining of health problems as they slog away under severe physical and emotional stress to meet the demands of the 24/7 internet economy.
Technology writer for the New York Times, Matt Richtel, warns that bloggers are working long hours, often to the point of exhaustion, and are reporting sleep disorders, weight loss or gain and other stress-related complaints.
He said that a new breed of home-office worker had emerged, blogging away at their computer screens, attracted to the buzz of the fast-moving, 24-hour demands to break company news or new technological developments ahead of their competitors.
Commercial bloggers have to work at a furious pace to make sure their post on a subject gets to the audience before their rivals, bringing with it the links and a bigger scoop of the advertising revenue.
Richtel's warning comes after the recent and sudden deaths of two high profile bloggers – Russell Shaw, 60, of a heart attack and Marc Orchant, 50, of a coronary.
Founder and co-editor of technology blog TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, has also been counting the cost of running a successful blog site, suffering a series of stress-related maladies.
He feared that at some point he would have a nervous breakdown, be admitted to the hospital, or that something else would happen. And this, he added, was not sustainable.
