Blogging Can Cause Death, Just Like Soldiering in Iraq


	Blogging Can Cause Death, Just Like Soldiering in Iraq

Silkweaver

4-8-2008 6:17 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2cdb0d15-10ca-4bbe-92f1-6afd4ffb3a6f/88E12ABF-0435-4B6D-89D1-E77835B6D800/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php" href="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php" style="font-size: 11px;">radaronline.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/radaronline.com/img/E79ECE44-62B8-4511-9595-D658607DEF2B" alt="blogdeaths_040708_FRESH.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php">In the world of 24/7 stress, writers blog until they drop. And also soldiers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php"><A target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/washington/06military.html?ref=todayspaper">One</A> front-page story in Sunday's <EM>New York Times</EM> once again chronicled the sad stories of soldiers, sailors, and Marines who are being cycled over and over through tours in Iraq—if they're not killed, they're coming back with permanent mental and emotional damage. In <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/technology/06sweat.html?scp=1&sq=blogger+death&st=nyt">another</A> A1 piece, members of the creative underclass, driven by their own egos and the assumption that the world will suffer irreparably if they don't blog 'round the clock, has seen its first casualties</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php"><EM>Radar</EM> took a day and came up with this comparison of where blogging falls among the deadliest occupations:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/04/bloggers-deaths-iraq-commercial-fishing.php"><STRONG>Coalition forces in Iraq</STRONG>: 4,015 (since 3/19/03)
<STRONG>Law enforcement</STRONG>: 186 (2007)
<STRONG>Construction</STRONG>: 1,192 (2005)
<STRONG>Transportation and warehousing</STRONG>: 885 (2005)
<STRONG>Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting</STRONG>: 715 (2005)
<STRONG>Commercial Fishing in Alaska</STRONG>: 641 (1990-2006)
<STRONG>Blogging</STRONG>: 2 (to date)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88E12ABF-0435-4B6D-89D1-E77835B6D800/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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