Comments on: Is Blogging Hazardous to Your Health? http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/ Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Starbucker http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Starbucker Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:59:31 +0000 http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/#comment-1581 Hi Linda and Jennifer - It was a pleasure meeting both of you at the Blogger Social! Linda, I really like the last sentence of your comment, because that pretty much describes my blogging life - manageable and pleasurable. I don't think I'll get any heart attacks from this. :-) Jennifer, I've always been interested in meeting the people behind the blogs, so consequently I've never thought of it as an isolating medium (I'm sure you are in the same place). The main reason I helped start SOBCon was to strengthen those connections. Now having Blogger Social on top of that is pretty darn cool! All the best to you both. Hi Linda and Jennifer – It was a pleasure meeting both of you at the Blogger Social!

Linda, I really like the last sentence of your comment, because that pretty much describes my blogging life – manageable and pleasurable. I don’t think I’ll get any heart attacks from this. :-)

Jennifer, I’ve always been interested in meeting the people behind the blogs, so consequently I’ve never thought of it as an isolating medium (I’m sure you are in the same place). The main reason I helped start SOBCon was to strengthen those connections. Now having Blogger Social on top of that is pretty darn cool!

All the best to you both.

]]> By: Jennifer Laycock http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 Jennifer Laycock Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:48:10 +0000 http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/#comment-1580 Terry, It was great to meet you this past weekend. :) It's funny, because I hear people talking about how isolating blogging can be, because although we're rich in conversation, there's no personal interaction. Yet here we had people from around the world making the journey to NYC for the specific purpose of meeting in person and making those pre-existing online connections that much stronger. I'm with you (and the others) who have pointed out that bloggers, like everyone else, have health problems. Two deaths from heart attacks have taken noted bloggers from our midst, but how many other heart attacks have taken less known bloggers and people who don't even know what a blog is? Blogging is not what caused the heart attacks. Blogging is simply what caused those people to become so well known. Terry,

It was great to meet you this past weekend. :) It’s funny, because I hear people talking about how isolating blogging can be, because although we’re rich in conversation, there’s no personal interaction.

Yet here we had people from around the world making the journey to NYC for the specific purpose of meeting in person and making those pre-existing online connections that much stronger.

I’m with you (and the others) who have pointed out that bloggers, like everyone else, have health problems. Two deaths from heart attacks have taken noted bloggers from our midst, but how many other heart attacks have taken less known bloggers and people who don’t even know what a blog is? Blogging is not what caused the heart attacks. Blogging is simply what caused those people to become so well known.

]]> By: Linda Sherman http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 Linda Sherman Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:15:29 +0000 http://www.terrystarbucker.com/2008/04/06/is-blogging-hazardous-to-your-health/#comment-1579 I very much enjoyed meeting you at Blogger Social, Terry. Thanks for sharing the New York Times article about blogging. I think there are different levels of pressure that we put ourselves into as bloggers. For those who position themselves as a dependable and timely news oriented source, particularly for tech, that certainly is stressful. I believe that for many, blogging provides us with a voice on a niche topic of personal interest written at a manageable and usually pleasurable pace. I very much enjoyed meeting you at Blogger Social, Terry. Thanks for sharing the New York Times article about blogging. I think there are different levels of pressure that we put ourselves into as bloggers. For those who position themselves as a dependable and timely news oriented source, particularly for tech, that certainly is stressful.

I believe that for many, blogging provides us with a voice on a niche topic of personal interest written at a manageable and usually pleasurable pace.

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