I’m sure you’ve read by now the article on The Tech Herald about the sudden demise of influential technology bloggers and how blogging is potentially deadly.  If you haven’t go read it now, I’ll wait. 

Hurry up, I don’t have all day.  Boy, you are a slow reader.

As you have read, the article makes a big deal about the link between blogging and death.  By their logic I can link bicycling with death and make it sound like an epidemic.  It seems to me that the recent deaths and illnesses have more to do with the type of job the people had (IT and technology related) than to actual blogging.  IT is a high stress occupation area to begin with.  Add that with journalism and poor exercise habits (which is the norm for IT people) and you’ll get a high incident of illness.  There are nights I have trouble sleeping, I tend to get sore elbows, wrists, and shoulders when working too long, and I am overweight (though I had a weight problem before I became involved with IT), but it is no worse than the other billion or so people who work everyday.

I can see my headstone now… “He died blogging and downloading porn”.

Of course it could really be a skinny Japanese girl with long hair and pale skin that is crawling though the blogosphere kill people like Ringu or something.  I guess I just came up with the next J-horror clone.

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