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I can find blog material almost anywhere. That's a problem. Trying to make a living at this blogging thing has me looking everywhere and always. That's the problem.

I can think of 8 reasons to not be a blogger, or to not try to make a living at it.

1. Russell Shaw - a prolific blogger on technology died from a heart attack while covering something in San Jose, my neck of the woods. He was a young 60-years old.

2. Marc Ochant - another tech blogger died of a massive coronary

3. Om Malik - a Bay Area blogger also had a heart attack, but survived.

4. Michael Arrington - founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, all about technology in Silicon Valley, has gained 30 pounds in three years.

5. Bloggers are called the digital era sweat-shop workers. Grinding out info, in volume or constantly on the hunt for a scoop and a few thousand more hits before they go looking for another one.

6. Milliseconds and bad luck make all the difference. A blogger can get the scoop, but not get noticed or have the friends to digg or stumbleupon it for him/her. Or, someone might just beat him/her to the punch. Been there, known that.

7. When you are awake, you worry about missing a story.

8. When you are asleep, you worry about missing a story.

You always worry. Meanwhile...there are heart attacks waiting to happen.

At least, we get to be part of the sweat-shop gang, eh? 

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