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04-06-2008, 05:44 PM
|  | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | Death By Computer?
This dovetails wonderfully with Panic's article about Stephen King on video game violence. Now, not only can computer games turn you violent, THE COMPUTERS CAN KILL YOU! Quote: |
Originally Posted by New York Times
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.
Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.
Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.
| OK, they've found 2 dead bloggers. So, we must blame modern trends and technology for their lack of exercise, poor diet, etc? OF COURSE we can! How can a computer argue they're wrong? It's so much easier to blame an activity or a device instead of the people. Afterall, people are just victims... right? In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times
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04-06-2008, 05:49 PM
|  | OMFG!!!! | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | Russell Shaw (ZDNet) died while on a trip, at a hotel, he covered a lot of technology conferences and such, he wasn't a "stay home blogger" or anything, just a normal tech reporter.
Don't tell me they can't take a break to go to the gym for an hour, or make a salad, or boink the maid.
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04-06-2008, 09:40 PM
|  | RawwwRRRoOoOo!!!1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Connecticut
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| | | The question is.. Were they perhaps watching to much pr0n, and yea possibly not eating correctly!?~
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04-06-2008, 11:07 PM
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| | | find me a tech guy that eats properly, and I'll show you 999 that don't. It has nothing to do with blogging or being wired constantly. You can check with truckers, who have high heart problems, or salesmen of all types, or anyone else who is busy working like a mofo all the time.
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04-06-2008, 11:26 PM
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| | | they're just finding something to blame other than themselves, the news have gotten soo bad recently |
04-08-2008, 12:24 AM
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| | | you know, for all the talk about 24 hour blogging, there's isn't crap for news being posted at night.
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04-08-2008, 08:26 AM
| | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | Even Drudge slows to a crawl in the wee hours.
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