Blogging Yourself to Death?
[A guest post by See-Dubya]
Have you ever seen such shameless traffic-baiting from the failing New York Times? Are they really feeling the Pinch this badly? And yet, I’m touched. So here’s a sympathy link.
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Pity the lot of the professional blogger. Long hours, stress, and…danger:
SAN FRANCISCO — 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.
Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.
Actually, blogging is kind of therapeutic. Especially when you’re a red-state person living in a blue, blue state, and your neighbors would burn a peace symbol in your yard at midnight if they knew how you really felt about things. Some people do yoga; I pound the keyboard. The blood pressure goes down either way.
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This Californian finds it refreshing to know that there are others out there in “never never land” who believe what I believe!
Thank God for blogging and bloggers.
Try teaching high school for a living instead.
Must have turned blue, poor devils. Or maybe they were already working for the dark side.
Conservatives see blogging as a labor of love.
Me? I’m only in it to pay the ISP and buy a morning cup o’ joe.
Well, reading blogs is kind of therapeutic. But then, some things I read can shoot my blood pressure up! Most of the time I read those whom I agree with, but when I jog over to the other side, I have to shake my head and wonder at their stupidity and what would happen to us all if they gained control. And sometimes I wonder if they aren’t gaining the upper hand.
blogging…whats blogging?
You can get paid for blogging???
Where would we be without them?
See-Dubya, we really appreciate you risking life and limb to bring us up to date on the news the MSM won’t cover.
Soros must be trying to discourage other liberal bloggers by making it seem so incredibly hard to get ahead. Since no conservative reads the NYTimes, unless they have to, it must have been targeted at potential competition to Moveon.argh! and the others.
Once again, the Credentialed Media fails to understand bloggers, and what we do, and why we do it. I do it exactly for the reasons See Dubya mentions.
Plus, to hopefully piss off some of the surrender monkey liberals, which, is rather cathartic.
Paid blogging? What’s that?
Seriously, I do it because I can, and because yoga would bring my blood pressure up, but mostly because I can.
Conservatives. Doing the blogging the MSM refuses to do.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no liberal. My keyboard and monitor, they comfort me. My empty coffee cup causes me to lay my head down on the desk. Surely comments and trackbacks will follow me through my blogging days.
Happy blogging, and watch out for that carpal tunnel syndrome… it’s a killer!
Thank goodness for conservative bloggers in the USA.
Otherwise, we would basically have nothing to balance the biased “journalism” of the outrageously corrupt liberal mainstream media.
“I blog, therefore I am.”
Michelle is immortal! Michelle will outlive the rest of the pack! Because, as we know, Michelle gets exercise!!
(The uninitiated can thank me later…)
Thunderbird 1… Thank you,( that’s later) I did not see that before. Kinda glad, I would have also been forced to jump..
“To be or not to be…a blogger”. Or, in the above post, a jumper. Personally, it’s Sunday…my day of rest and Nascar. Jumping for mother Earth wasn’t for me then, or today. Oh, if Clinton calls it a “right wing conspiracy” I may jump once or twice to spite her. But, no jumps for Obama, even if it is for “hope and change”.
Attention Bloggers!
Beware of the Humor Police!
Yes, I blog because I live in a blue area of Wisconsin (well, Wisconsin’s pretty blue all around). Most people I know are liberal, and it helps.
95% of what I know about conservativism and much of what I’ve learned about my faith has come from blogs.
Heaven knows you won’t get this kind of coverage in the MSM…
Women on Trampolines! How sweet it is!
RIP, The Man Show, RIP.
you can add a sympathy link…but i ain’t clickin!
“[A guest post by See-Dubya]”
Now here’s a delicate question:
On the home page, in the right-hand column, there are currently 24 articles.
15 of them, or almost two-thirds, were written by See-Dubya.
So, wouldn’t the “guest poster” these days be Michelle?
Regarding the article, I agree that it was nothing but “traffic-baiting.”
“To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic.”
Or even justify an article.
Oh.
I thought the purpose of sharing those untimely deaths, all two of them, was to engender guilt in all of us, thereby causing us all to immediately trash our computers and run out and by their fish wrapper.
I can see it now. The editors all standing around the news room high-fiving - “Boy, this will really drive up circulation.”
I would rather be a blogger who contributes to society than to be a person who dresses in pink with deranged hatred toward everything that makes this country great. Watching those “haters” (and others beside the pinkos) makes me think that they are the ones with the most stress. Has anyone in the MSM done a study on them? But then again, they are like cockroaches, nothing seems to harm them.
Hard work, soap, deodorant and shaving cream seem to repel them.
This is just killing me.
Er, no. My feed reader has the last 2 weeks of Michelle’s and See-Dub’s posts, and out of 127 posts, 15 are from See-Dub the Super-Sub.
Besides, you must’ve missed the “Where in the world” post Michelle more or less left us with on the 3rd. My only regret is nobody told me she was in Madison Friday; that would’ve been worth the road trip.
Sad. First an attempt to minimize bloggers through dispargement (’in pajamas’) now a red herring? Wonder if working conditions for the average keyboard pounder at the NYT is all sweetness and light?
Guys, they just wish bloggers all died. We keep the truth right in front and force them to hide in the shadows of their shame. And like Michelle, blogging is very therapeutic not to mention commenting. Pity the NYT if this all they can launch against us.
How did he know I died last night? I didn’t find out till this morning myself!
OSHA regulations for blogging might make for a humorous thread - if such prospects were not so likely.
chsw
Since I discovered blogs, I get all of my information on politics and news from them. I love these guys and gals! I trust blogs, but I do not believe anything I read (now rarely) in the MSM. I am working on my own blog now. So take that, old grey lady!
Here is the take of someone who was interviewed for the piece but didn’t make the cut. He states the reason is that his view didn’t fit the narrative/template.
They get paid….SMILE