Do Bloggers Need a 12-Step Program
An amusing article in the New York Times today about being addicted to blogging. I like this paragraph best:
Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don’t keep up. As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs.
Followed by this:
“It seems as if his laptop is glued to his legs 24/7,” Ms. Matthews said of her husband.
And then this:
Mr. Pierce is more realistic. “I wouldn’t call it dedicated, I would call it a problem,” he said. “If this were beer, I’d be an alcoholic.”
This from an editor about a blogger who kept missing his deadlines:
“Here he is working all night on something read by five second cousins and a dog, and I’m willing to pay him,” she said.
