There was a lot of early hype that it might be about Fav.or.it, but I think this week’s Bitchmeme has to be bloggers’ commentary revolving around the ‘Writers Blog Till They Drop‘ article The New York Times wrote today.

Nearly everyone has weighed in on the topic now including Om Malik who recently had his own serious health scare, which was at the very least not helped by obsessive amounts of blogging. Over at VentureBeat, I found it humorous that Dean wrote a post on the issue just a day after he said goodbye to all of us at the office as he left for vacation – he just couldn’t resist.

While Om’s piece on it obviously has meaning given his experience, others see this topic as a serious low blow seeing as how Russell Shaw recently passed away while on a reporting trip.

As Steven Hodson says:

“I’m sorry but this is some of the stupidest, lamest and idiotic headline grabbing piece of trash that I have seen in a while. It might be a headline one would expect from National Enquirer or even The Globe”

The headline is pretty extreme, but it certainly got the blogosphere talking about the topic. The obvious key here is that it’s important not to be too obsessed with any career/hobby you have.

Blogging might seem a perfect target since most of us are sitting all day staring at a screen, but really everyone should try to eat healthy and exercise unless you want to increase your risk of a serious health situation down the road. I try to go to the gym at least every other day in between 5+ hour sitting sessions. I also like to stand up and type whenever possible.

Bitchmeme is healthy and will live on…