Monday, April 7, 2008

Writers blog till they drop

A growing workforce 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, <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6236771.html?tag=nl.e550">two among their ranks have died suddenly.</A>

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