Reaction: Death by blogging

Blogging has become very competitive. You can see a lot of blogs flooding the blogosphere generated by groups of professionals, work at home moms and college students. The kind of virtual work they have needs a fast turn around and quick to write imagination. Creativity is never a problem here but good topics are. Every website loves to generate a hit for whatever reasons. Hits can sell. News items revolve around the net fast catch by a chain of bloggers. Blogging before was seen as a hobby or just plain passion for writing until advertisers tapped the blogosphere as a channel of introducing their products and get quality leads that will convert into cash. Then blog review companies pop out from nowhere and kept these freelance writers busy.

Now that blogging generates income, bloggers and article writers felt its potential and commit their selves to more work. It is because they see that the work assignment is not constant and they feel they can do it. The production of a 24 hour 10,000 word articles for blog postings and forum postings is not an easy task. It will take a lot of your time and a lot of your creativity. This is what we call brain drain. This is especially true for the news bloggers. So here comes a blogger spending the rest of his days making a research in the internet, monitoring emails and monitoring phone calls for update. They don’t die because they blog, they die because they over committed and the pressure got them down.

Blogging is a good way to express your thoughts and your desires. It is a free way. But when you over commit it will drain your energy out of your body and let you live a life totally different from a normal person. Unless you are unable to physically go out and enjoy the basic beauty of the world outside, please try to manage your blogging time and contract works. Make it like an 8-5 work at home. Give your eyes and your body rest after that self brainstorming you had in there. I understand if you have to cope up with bills payments. But if you have many funds and you continue to do this, it is not healthy work habit anymore. You are about to kill the world’s most dedicated blogger – YOU!
Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html?pagewanted=print