Blogging to Death
Sometimes I get so caught up in my Real World Work that I have no time to catch up on RSS feeds. That means I miss stories like this in the New York Times. Two prolific and well-read bloggers have recently passed away, at young ages, and a third had a heart attack.
While it took the NY Times to come out and say it, many are putting this towards Type A personality stress. They blogged themselves to death. Particularly in technology, the stakes are high. You want to scoop other technology blogs out there, you pull all nighters, and you survive at your computer.
There is a direct correlation between the weight I gained this year and the increased time I’ve spent at the computer. Now, I’m not trying to scoop someone else (heck, I can’t even keep up with all my feeds), but I am trying to at least stay on top of social media. Every day there’s a new app out there and I try to get a beta invite and at least familiarize myself with it. That’s on top of my Real Job, which is, at this very moment, a technical documentation project.
I’ve taken control and made the decision to get healthy and spend less time at the computer and more time visiting the gym and eating regularly and correctly. But not all bloggers can do that – there is an amazing amount of blog fatigue and stress if you let it get to you. If I actually worry about it, the wine blog can get to me – I haven’t had an original post in days. As great as it is, blogging can have a downside, but you just have to take control and maintain a work-life balance. And you have to remember that it’s just a blog. The world won’t end if you miss a day or two.
