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When I kicked off this blog about 1.5 years ago, I used to write, proof read, and rearrange it by my own. And since I’m not writing in my mother tongue, I’m struggling to make the sentence perfect, grammatically correct and at the same time sounds interesting. And no, I’m not writing my personal life, so I’ve to be sure that my info is accurate. That’s where my wife becomes my savior. To make this story short, I do the ideas exploration and draft, and my wife makes it better. Is this considered as team-work??

I’m sure that many has read Seth Godi’s article about the death of personal blogs. There are 2 things that caught my attention. He had mentioned that the top 10 blogs in Tecnorati are written by a group of writers (with lots of resources too). And another thing is that, these blogs are not writing personal stuffs or about what they’re doing. It’s more to stuffs that benefit their readers.

There is now way ‘personal topic’ niche written by a single blogger can ever match those blogs that write ‘how tos’ and are written by a group of people. So does it mean you have to give up your personal blog?

Part of my reorg. recently is to make this blog not looks like a personal blog (since I’ve moved it to another blog), even though I mix up the content occasionally with personal. I’m not remodeling blogjer to be 100% tech blog, but I set my target for the content to be 90% tech related. Tech niche is very tough, with hundreds of blogs out there covering the same news. It’s up to how fast and often you post.

Personal blog is not going to die (even though it is hard to top the blog list such as Technorati). There are people enjoying reading blogs like KarenCheng which is popular with fashion, ‘how to make baby’ and ‘Do it Karen Cheng Way’. Or NoktahHitam which presents local news and issues with a mixture of cynical and humor.

But the point that I want to bring up here is (and what I learned), if you do have fund to hire someone write for you, or do some sort of cooperation or team work, go ahead. Be it personal blog or news blog, the more eyes and brains, the better it is.