Seth's Blog: Death of the personal blog?

>Personal blogs aren't going anywhere, though.

Come on Seth - such a marketer's title.

All the blogs I'm subscribed to are personal blogs, I did have boing boing in, but it got to be extremely annoying. I mean like 200 posts a day is just fucking stupid, I didn't read a single one for weeks because I had to search through a giant list to find anything interesting. The only interesting person posting on it is Cory and even his turned into 1/2 self-promotion.

I currently read a few personal blogs, my favorite is John Scalzi's but I also follow a number of literary agent's blogs. 3/4 of the stuff is personal, but they occasionally give out amazing advice to anyone wanting to get published.

Said differently: Personal blogs are the seed for something bigger.

For newbies personal blogs are a good place to start. However, if you want to get serious try something new and this time determine what most people find intersting to read.

http://lonesomedreamerinme.blogspot.com/

He suggested making a list of the top personal bloggers. I'm not sure it's necessary. Sites like HN do a good job of aggregating individual posts.

Who cares how many people wrote it when it should only be about who reads it?