{"id":2213,"date":"2008-12-14T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2008-12-14T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:28:02","slug":"can-blogging-be-lethal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Can blogging be lethal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption\" style=\"\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Robert_Scoble_%28cropped%29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1c\/Robert_Scoble_%28cropped%29.jpg\/202px-Robert_Scoble_%28cropped%29.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Robert Scoble, cropped from original.\" title=\"Photo of Robert Scoble, cropped from original.\" width=\"202\" height=\"317\"\/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Robert_Scoble_%28cropped%29.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loiclemeur.com\/english\/2008\/12\/should-michael.html\">this warning<\/a> about blogging from top blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Scoble\" title=\"Robert Scoble\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">Robert Scoble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Since I have been taking the time and slowing down and enjoying life more with family and friends and I&#8217;ve found that my blog&#8217;s traffic is going down (I&#8217;ve been doing that after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Om_Malik\" title=\"Om Malik\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">Om Malik<\/a> had his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myocardial_infarction\" title=\"Myocardial infarction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">heart attack<\/a> and other bloggers have died).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My view is that in some cases there could be something unhealthy about the way some people live to blog.  Especially if they make a living from blogging and compete for advertising.  In my case blogging is mostly about annotating life.   It\u00b4s something I always did.  I used to collect private notes in written form.  Now they are digital annotations and most of the times shared with others.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=e20f053a-7ec6-4d11-8343-350d4c282fef\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2213\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia I just read this warning about blogging from top blogger Robert Scoble: Since I have been taking the time and slowing down and enjoying life more with family and friends and I&#8217;ve found that my blog&#8217;s traffic is going down (I&#8217;ve been doing that after Om Malik had his heart attack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,90],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-om-malik","tag-robert-scoble"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2213\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can blogging be lethal? 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