There has been a lot of buzz lately about Blogging to Death ever since the New York Times wrote about the deaths of high-stress bloggers Sunday. It’s discussed in the recent post here, “Is Blogging Killing You?” There is also a post, “What’s Wrong with the Blogosphere?” at Performancing, where Raj Dash points out:

I find one day’s blogging to be far harder work than producing, say, 1,000 lines of computer code in one day. (The industry standard for programmers used to be about 10 lines of finished code per day.) Each…

It might sound like an amusing question, but it appears that there could be some truth to it.  Is blogging killing you?  According to an article in the New York Times on Sunday, blogging can be fatal, or at the very least, contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle that could lead to death.

Sadly, two well-known bloggers, Russell Shaw and Marc Orchant, died in the past few months from heart-related conditions.  Their stress levels may have contributed to their conditions, and much of that stress may have come from blogging.  These men were only…

There is another resource both for finding what’s happening in the blogosphere and for potentially seeking out incoming links. Web guru Guy Kawasaki recently launched Alltop, with the slogan, “We’ve got all the top stories covered, all the time.”

Frankly, when I first saw the site I didn’t get its brilliance in its simplicity. I shrugged it off as yet another directory in a world or far too many blog directories. But since then, a couple things have happened.

I submitted a couple links to my blog feeds to ask to be…

SocialSpark, the latest project from PayPerPost creator’s Izea, today announced PayPerPost advertisers will be testing out their new social marketplace in the alpha version of their new site with a public release scheduled for mid April.

If you want to find out more about SocialSpark you should check out their demo video for a preview of what’s to come. Hopefully Izea will learn from the mistakes they made from PayPerPost and although I can’t give an honest opinion of the new social marketplace for bloggers yet I am impressed from what I…

Alison McNeil contacted me today to let me know about the public release of a new blog directory called Blogged.com. Alison sent me a press release (see here) however she was also kind enough to provide a less newsy summary of this new blog directory.

Blogged.com Blog Directory - Their Summary
* Please remember this summary was provided by Blogged.com and not BloggingTips.com

Blogged.com is a blog discovery and exploration tool supported by a network that connects bloggers with readers (without having to first register). It’s different than existing blog directories such as…