"Some level of creative, physical, mental or emotional burnout is inevitable for most bloggers": the Boston Herald rounds up a list of bloggers and asks them the following questions: "hours blogged each week," "burnout likelihood," "neglected relationships?" and "afraid of burnout?" Answers range from "80 hours" to "I guest edited Wonkette a few years back, and found I was working 12 hour days just to fill a quota for readers who wanted to be reading Ana Marie Cox and were quite vocal about the fact." In other news... bloggers are bad parents, survey says?

From two of the bloggers surveyed:

NEGLECTED RELATIONSHIPS? Yup.
"I have a wife and two year old son that I have completely distanced myself from because I have been so adamant in being the best possible blogger. If news in our hobby breaks, it is my passion to be the first blogger to break it. I can't tell you how many fights I have been caught in over the my blog. Oh well, that's another story....maybe another time."

NEGLECTED RELATIONSHIPS OR HOBBIES? Yup.
"It's taking a noticeable chunk of time away from other writing I like to do (essays, fiction, other writing assignments). Oh, and also the kids.
[Boston Herald]

Oh, and here's another blogger death, to top it off.