You think there has been a lack of blog posts recently, and first reaction would be they must be busy or on holiday.  Truth is I have been looking after my health.  I was passed an article today from the New York Times about people who write blogs for a living literally working themselves to death.

The article comes in the wake of the recent death of two popular Bloggers from heart related diseases and the heart attack of well know tech blogger Om Malik.  It seems that professional bloggers are setting up offices in their bedrooms, avoiding sleep and in some cases neglecting food in order to be at the forefront of timely blog posts.

These professional bloggers are paid usually by the number of blog posts they can create and by their readership  numbers.  Being the first to report a story, news item, new product and so on makes your blog all the more valuable.

Well I don’t think there is any risk of myself and Gally skipping meals, sleep or blogging to death.

Tags: Humour, Web 2.0

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