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Written on July 2, 2006, we suspected this blogging thing could be dangerous.

Signs of Blogoholism. You know you’re a blogoholic if:

1. You constantly check your stats, technorati rank & links before you eat breakfast and before you go to sleep
2. You work on your next blog post while you’re in the shower, at work, talking to family members or with your significant other when you should really be focused on something else
3. You go on blog posting binges and still feel the need to post just one more
4. You have done an all-nighter as if you were in college finishing a term paper
5. You tell people you just met “I have a blog”
6. You have the skin color of a corpse
7. You would rather comment on blogs than talk to people face to face
8. You consider any story, idea or photo bloggable
9. You visit everyone on your blogroll at least once a day
10. You have 50 blog posts saved as drafts, none of which are finished
11. You have a significant other that no longer talks to you in person, rather by commenting on your blog.
12. Your newborns first word is “blog”
13. You are writing a blog post such as this one on a Saturday night rather than enjoying a night on the town
14. Your children find out what you are doing by reading your blog [Bonnie Erickson]
15. You feel lost when your internet service goes down [Bonnie Erickson]
16. You try to recruit friends and family to blog [Bonnie Erickson]
17. You adamantly say I am not a blogaholic! I am not a blogaholic! I am not a blogaholic! [Maureen McCabe]
18. You do want to be with your family, but want to multi task, post while you are with them [Larry Cragun]
19. FACT: You have stories on your blog, your children haven’t heard [Larry Cragun]
20. You feel sort of empty inside, let down and sad when a favorite blog does not post for a day or two. [Christine Forgione]
21. You get overly excited when a “Famous” Blogger invites you to comment or COMMENTS on YOUR Blog!! [Christine Forgione]
22. You plan your vacations around blogging. If no wireless internet access, then no vacation. That rules out some cruise ships, all national park lodges and most foreign countries. [Marlow Harris]
23. You’re biggest problem with moving into a new home is that you have to wait a few days for the cable man to show up and install a high speed connection! [Dustin Luther]
24. A weekend without access to the internet means that there are over 2000 unread posts in your feed reader! (no kidding, I’m looking at 2794 unread entries right now!) [Dustin Luther]
25. You have more than one blog! [Florida Realtor]
26. Instead of ordering your food in a restaurant you mentally begin to code the menu in xhtml, complete with css style…. [Harold]
27. I feel like some of my best friends live inside my computer and on blogs. [Teresa Boardman]
28. You smash your blackberry because it won’t connect after attempting to make a “mobile” post on the fly. [Condo Blog]
29. When you have your computer desk set up to make room to eat dinner while you blog. [Greg Tracy]
30. You have this sudden fear that people might think you are “blog-fading” if you do not consistently post and you actually miss a day. [Paul Dizmang]

OK fellow bloggers, let’s hear it…we need a TOP 3O LIST. What makes you a blogoholic?

Thanks to anonymous blogger for the inspiration for this post.

Update 11.07.06: Our Top 30 List is complete. If you have any more reasons, just post them in a comment and we’ll keep the list going.

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