Blogging Can Kill You - Signs You Might be at Risk

Bloggers take note: "Blogging can kill". The NYTimes posted an article about the high stress world of professional bloggers. It cited two recent deaths of well known bloggers. Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology, dead at 60 from a heart attack and Marc Orchant dead at 50 from a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack last year.

Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other ailments that come from the non-stop strain of producing news and information for the "always-on" Internet.

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said he has gained 30 pounds since he started blogging. He has also developed a severe sleeping disorder. He was quoted as saying, “at some point, I’ll have a nervous breakdown and be admitted to the hospital, or something else will happen.”

Blogging has become a passion for some and an obsession for others. Here are some signs that I've come up with that may indicate that you have "Obsessive Blogging Disorder" (OBD):

1) You check your web stats at least once an hour
2) You wake up in the middle of the night to write a blog
3) You daydream about blogging
4) Juggle several blogs at once
5) Feel anxious if you don't blog
6) Start looking at everything to see if it would make a good blog post
7) You skip social events to blog instead
8) You skip meals to blog
9) You bring your laptop/pda with you everywhere you go and have it on standby so you can quickly power it on to start writing.
10) Postpone sex to post a blog
11) Start quoting your own blog in conversations with friends/family
12) Postpone bathroom breaks so you can finish a post
13) When you visit a friend's house you ask if you can "quickly" use their computer to "check something"

If you exhibit any two of the above warning signs above you need to start chilling out. Blogging is not worth dying over.

Vassilios

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Vassilios
Co-Founder
OuterVillage.com
http://outervillage.com

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