Blogging–the Digital-Era Sweatshop?
Posted: April 6, 2008
Here’s an interesting item, Corn Commentarians: the 24-hour news cycle and the engagement of bloggers into that news cycle has some apparent drawbacks, including weight gain, lack of sleep and stress, among other things.
Prompted by the untimely, unexpected deaths of two prominent bloggers, a New York Times technology article, describes the downside of blogging:
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.
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.
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