{"id":1527,"date":"2008-04-10T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2008-04-14T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T03:30:05","slug":"and-you-thought-blogging-was-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/and-you-thought-blogging-was-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"And you thought blogging was easy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Web World of 24\/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is hardly digging ditches, and this is a hobby not my attempt to become a 100K a year blogger. But like anything else you can become too focussed even obsessive. Take time with family and friends, watch spring begin as things green up and flower. Enjoy life.<\/p>\n

\"Creative<\/a> photo<\/a> credit: puroticorico<\/a><\/small>
\n——————-
\n“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy;
\nbecause there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can
\nbear taxation.”<\/strong> —John Marshall<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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