Why I don’t blog more
I know you. Each day you fire up your browser, head to this blog… and then surf away, dissapointed. “Why doesn’t Steve update his blog more often?” you ask. “He’s so funny! So damned insightful. I just wish he’d post more often!”
Yeah, I’m full of it. Sure, I’d like to be a more regular blogger, but I have a few other things that take priority each day. In a way I’m glad, as too much blogging could be bad for my health:
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. … 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.
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