The New York Times has a piece headlined In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop. The basic idea is that blogs are the new sweatshops, which is explicit in the URL. Anyway:
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.
Um, yes, it's really tough: sooo much worse than making cheap rugs or sneakers, subsistence farming, or my previous job in the Uranium mines. I don't know if I could get through a day without the constant supplies of coffee and Bach cantatas.
Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesson has the most amusing commentary on the story. He provides an alternative headline -- Blogging Causes Death -- and then provides headlines for some follow-up stories, which include:
Blogging Causes Herpes Bloggers Shorter than Normal People Hitler Probably Blogged Now Bloggers Aren't Even Wearing Pajamas
Of course, there are much worse stories about video gaming in papers such as the Daily Mail. But it's not going to get that bad. The New York Times and other papers already have their own blogs....
