We have heard many times about 'Peer Group Pressure'. Sometimes the group, routines, common rules, make us do things we do not like or want to. But today I want to talk about other kind of pressure. The blogging pressure.

Reading today about the death of some bloggers in the USA I have been asking about the reasons looking at my way of blogging here, or even my way of writting books. In Spain I now some bloggers. Nice people, they love what they do, most of them do not live from it. But in the USA the new market being created as advertising is moving to the Net, has helped rise a new race of people. Professional bloggers.

Heading for the last breaking new, not like the former journalists we discovered in the movies, but for the 10$ per post. Some are supposed to get rich, like Perez Hilton. Others are not having such a happy ending. They live and work at their homes, helping us see that working home is not so nice when four other co-workers are also at your facility. Some days ago and Spanish website about NBA was bought at a nice figure. Main reason was that they are the best at getting the good rumor, but also that they are awaken working while America sleep, so when the States wake up they have the news hot from the oven. But if you blog and live in Brooklyn you better not sleep. Years ago the yuppies were in a similar mood. Ask Bret Easton Ellis if you don't believe me or take a new watch at 'Wall Street'. But they expected glory and tons of dollars thanks to the American Dream and the IPO or M&A.

Today, profesional bloggers have no such glamour but they do have tons of job, a market that is suffering from expected recesion, and shortage in his life. Is this the new journalism we were expecting? Maybe the close contact with the audience is making them be more implicated and have more pressure. We must remember that today the web are conversations. Any blogger feeling that pressure near here?

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