What about Bob?

... he will go insane.

Clinically insane. Or close to it, anyway.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a psychiatrist in Oregon who believes that there are people out there so addicted to the Internet. According to Dr. Jerald Block of the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, people who spend too much time on the Internet - and we assume that includes obsessive-compulsive bloggers like Best - suffer four symptoms:

1. They forget to eat and sleep.

2. They need more advanced technology or more hours online as they develop 'resistance' to the pleasure given by their current system.

3. If they are deprived of their computer, they experience genuine withdrawal symptoms.

4. The victims also begin to have more arguments, to suffer fatigue, to get lower marks in tests and to feel isolated from society.

Dr. Block makes no mention of an addiction to page views, an affliction suffered by Best and every other blogger that ever existed. And he doesn't offer a guess as to blogging lifespan. But he does offer some fascinating - and disturbing - views of life on the Internet.

That said, we feel this is a fine to say that, in the interests of our own sanity, we'll be blogging slightly less in the coming days. The combination of a slow news cycle in the NFL, the need to spend far more time with my family because there is never enough time to do so, and the need to make sure my head doesn't explode before training camp begins are all factors in this decision.

Hope you understand.

Hope Best can do the same, although we suspect his clinical disorder is far beyond what anyone has seen in the newspaper industry. In the meantime, check out Best's scoop on Mike & the Mad Dog potentially being on the rocks.

And other assorted tidbits in the world of media.