to my loyal fans. saw this today on iht.com:
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop [...]
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. [Bloggers] are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have DIED suddenly.
[...] 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.
To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging [...] BUT friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths have them thinking about the dangers of their work style.
The pressure even gets to those who work for themselves — and are being well-compensated for it.
[...] "At some point," [said Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a popular technology blog,] "I'll have a nervous breakdown and be admitted to the hospital, or something else will happen."
oh dear. someone please tell my baby that i love her.
