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…some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among their ranks have died suddenly.

Ie The usual MSM fear mongering, no attempt to show if they were high risk or as a % of bloggers are they higher than normal folk who also die.  Did they smoke, the leading cause of heart disease, were they killed off by MSM’s who are losing too much money/jobs/credibility [I just put that in to annoy 911 truthers!], etc etc, but thats not why I’m posting this the reason is below.

In order to determine this I’ve made a questionnaire. Answer ‘yes’ to even half of these - and you are definitely a blogging addict and you’re probably in danger of deep vein thrombosis and/or fatal fat-assitude:

  1. Have you postponed sex for blogging?
  2. Do you quote your own blog to people at the office?
  3. What excites you more: watching Battlestar Galactica or blogging about watching Battlestar Galactica?
  4. Have you ever thought this: “First I get the blog, …then I get the money, …then I get the women”?
  5. Do you make blog posts from your blackberry?
  6. Have you developed you own language to describe other bloggers (i.e. “stoogeleft, kkkate etc…)?
  7. Do you consider leaving comments on another blogger’s site a form of social interaction?
  8. Have you ever chosen food because it’s easy to eat it while typing? (ie. best skip the pasta, it’ll drop on the keyboard - let’s go for microwave taquito)
  9. Can you see your feet when you stand up? ['no' counts as 'yes' and 'yes' as 'no' for this one]
  10. Do you check your blog stats more than twice a day?
  11. Which puts you in a better mood: A link from LittleGreenFootballs (for the right wing) or the Daily Kos (for the left wing) - or - a pay rise at your day job?
  12. Have you ever performed more poorly than you should have at work, because you were blogging instead of working?
  13. Have you ever betrayed a secret on your blog?
  14. When you’re arguing with your boyfriend or girlfriend are you thinking ‘this’ll make a great post’?
  15. Which is easier: handcoding a youtube embed, or making a poached egg?

http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/blogging-yourself-to-death-are-you-in-danger/

:)