Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?

by Yvonne | April 6th, 2008 @ 4:04pm | Permalink to "Is Blogging Bad for Your Health?" | No Comments

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

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.

Wow. Digital-era sweatshop. Thanks, New York Times, for the vote of confidence (last I checked, three health incidents in a population of millions did not an epidemic make)!

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