Michelle Malkin is off about a New York Times scare piece on blogging:
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…some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.
Protein Wisdom picks it up here:
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.
Scared yet? You should be. As I showed you last week, blogging can be hazardous to your physique, but now we see it can actually kill you! How can you figure out if you are one of those bloggers who is literally digg-ing his own grave?
In order to determine this I’ve made a questionnaire. Answer ‘yes’ to even half of these – and you are definitely a blogging addict and you’re probably in danger of deep vein thrombosis and/or fatal fat-assitude:
- Have you postponed sex for blogging?
- Do you quote your own blog to people at the office?
- What excites you more: watching Battlestar Galactica or blogging about watching Battlestar Galactica?
- Have you ever thought this: “First I get the blog, …then I get the money, …then I get the women”?
- Do you make blog posts from your blackberry?
- Have you developed you own language to describe other bloggers (i.e. “stoogeleft, kkkate etc…)?
- Do you consider leaving comments on another blogger’s site a form of social interaction?
- Have you ever chosen food because it’s easy to eat it while typing? (ie. best skip the pasta, it’ll drop on the keyboard – let’s go for microwave taquito)
- Can you see your feet when you stand up? ['no' counts as 'yes' and 'yes' as 'no' for this one]
- Do you check your blog stats more than twice a day?
- Which puts you in a better mood: A link from LittleGreenFootballs (for the right wing) or the Daily Kos (for the left wing) – or – a pay rise at your day job?
- Have you ever performed more poorly than you should have at work, because you were blogging instead of working?
- Have you ever betrayed a secret on your blog?
- When you’re arguing with your boyfriend or girlfriend are you thinking ‘this’ll make a great post’?
- Which is easier: handcoding a youtube embed, or making a poached egg?
More questions are welcome in the comments.
Related:
I won’t say or not if I’m joking (because it will be funnier that way but…
1. Have you postponed sex for blogging?
check
2. Do you quote your own blog to people at the office?
check
3. What excites you more: watching Battlestar Galactica or blogging about watching Battlestar Galactica?
Never watch it
4. Have you ever thought this: “First I get the blog, …then I get the money, …then I get the women”?
not quite
5. Do you make blog posts from your blackberry?
don’t have wireless device. Does XO count?
6. Have you developed you own language to describe other bloggers (i.e. “stoogeleft, kkkate etc…)?
nope
7. Do you consider leaving comments on another blogger’s site a form of social interaction?
check
8. Have you ever chosen food because it’s easy to eat it while typing? (ie. best skip the pasta, it’ll drop on the keyboard – let’s go for microwave taquito)
check
9. Can you see your feet when you stand up?
check
10. Do you check your blog stats more than twice a day?
check check check
11. Which puts you in a better mood: A link from LittleGreenFootballs (for the right wing) or the Daily Kos (for the left wing) – or – a pay rise at your day job?
pay raise meaninless, give me link
12. Have you ever performed more poorly than you should have at work, because you were blogging instead of working?
nope
13. Have you ever betrayed a secret on your blog?
check
14. When you’re arguing with your boyfriend or girlfriend are you thinking ‘this’ll make a great post’?
not usually
15. Which is easier: handcoding a youtube embed, or making a poached egg?
handcoding
My verdict, a slightly increased risk of obesity and sloth which hasn’t taken hold yet. I’ll have to watch that into my 30s though.
Writers Blog Till They Drop…
But would it be less stressful than in their homes, with their families, and where they can eat when they want, sleep when they are tired, don’t have to commute to work, etc….
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