Is Blogging dangerous to your health?

According to the New York Times, Writers Blog Till They Drop . The title is misleading. Unlike smoking, blogging does not, in and of itself, kill people. The real problem lies in the work habits of the bloggers, the stress levels they experience, and the economic model in which they work.
After some horror stories about recent deaths and a heart attack among the blogging fraternity, the Times turns its attention to the work life of the typical blogger. The description makes blogging sound like a twenty-first century version of New Grub Street ,the George Gissing novel about exploited hack writers in Victorian English. From the Times' point of view, naive writers, pursuing dreams of wealth and fame allow themselves to be drawn into a world of over work and anxiety. Often these innocents are exploited by unscrupulous publishers who pay them “on a sliding bonus scale that rewards success with a demand for even more work”.
In response, the Web Worker Daily describes the Times depiction of blogging as “one-deimensional” and offers links to articles about handling the blogger's lifestyle.

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