Is Blogging Killing Us Technology Bloggers?

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Here’s a little health report of some of the notable bloggers we know. Matt of Gizmodo passed out a few times and were unreachable; Michael Arrington of TechCrunch suffered from severe sleep disorder and was hospitalized for couple of times because of nervous breakdown; Om Malik of GigaOM had an heart attack but survived. Pretty scary huh, here more – Russell Shaw died at of heart attack, and Marc Orchant, died of a massive coronary. All tech bloggers.

The fact is that tech bloggers, particularly the probloggers live a different life than the rest. Lifestyle bloggers for instance, write whenever they feels like to, no pressure. In the technology blogosphere, being amongst the first to cover tech news is considered highly important. But perhaps we overlooked something more important – our health ?

A lot of bloggers aim to convert themselves full time, a problogger. One often sees lots of advantages being full time blogger and often, missed to see there’s also the negative side. Yes, there’s maximum time flexibility but that also means you could be blogging at any hours and resulted your body to missed the regular sleeping hours. I noticed myself consumed more caffeines and nicotines after going full time. LiewCF put on weight, waking up when most people are sleeping. And because you need to do more blogging after converted to full time, some bloggers even start to lose passion and slack off.

It takes a little bit of self discipline to overcome these. Well yeah, it’s easy to say but from my point of view, it’s hard to implement.

Read more at NY Times.

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Posted by hongkiat in Blogosphere , at 04.09.08

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  1. techzooom April 9th, 2008

    what happen to u?Hongkiat?fatter or thinner?

    Best thing to practice is to much an apple while u blog.

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  2. hongkiat April 9th, 2008

    techzoom: well, i kinda.. sort of become fatter, but the meat gathers around the tummy. that’s because i eat in front of my mac. oh I’m using Mac, can that consider as Apple too :-P

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  3. syamsulariff.com April 9th, 2008

    hm..moral of the story..dont blog too much? latest post come no 2..health first :D

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  4. earl-ku April 9th, 2008

    dont worry la … u will die later than them, once all of them has dies, then will it only be ur turn …

    as of now … chill

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  5. Kay April 9th, 2008

    The price to become a famous person is always either privacy or health. :)
    LiewCF is obviously gained a lot of weight. But he is quite relax with his blog. See, at least he is on vacation now. So fun.

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  6. adi April 9th, 2008

    alamak.. aku kena bersenam la kalau macam nih .. takut aku dengor beritaa nih .

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  7. iCalvyn April 10th, 2008

    since i start blogging, i was less exercise, but still go at least one a week

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  8. Carbono April 12th, 2008

    Bloggers like any other professional are prone to go through this type of situation.

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  9. Syahid A. April 14th, 2008

    There you go, popularity has a price too. :D

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  10. hwchua April 16th, 2008

    blogging can really kill

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  11. davidlian April 30th, 2008

    Yeah, I saw this a couple of weeks ago. Really. There was this Korean dude that died thanks to blogging.

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  12. Jimy Wong June 21st, 2008

    Maybe it’s true, since i’m doing blogging. My time totally changes from day time is my night time. Always looking at notebook, felt dizzy sometimes. My palm hurts and need stretching. Smokes a lot lately. I had become watch dog at home. Save petrol at least..hehe
    Tommorow going for futsal to exercise.

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