Why Are We Blogging So Hard?

We have a hardworking team at PO, consisting of three full-time editors and several contributors. It’s a small but highly efficient team. Each day, we write over ten stories about tech and start-ups in Asia. It’s fun but it’s also a lot of hard work.

Sometimes people ask me why are we doing this. It’s a common question. And as a struggling start-up at its early stage, I sometimes ask myself this question too — Why are we blogging so hard?

We blog hard because we want to make tech in Asia understandable.

It is a vision. If the U.S can have a vibrant blogging environment that promotes Silicon Valley, then Asia should have one too. The eBay, Facebook, and Google we understand today wouldn’t be the same without the blogs and media covering their daily updates. Likewise, we hope to do the same for Alibaba, Renren, and Baidu and other tech companies and start-ups across Asia.

We believe that information sharing on the web in English is the first step toward helping people understand tech in Asia better and faster. It’s a tough continent to understand because it’s so big, but perhaps more so because it’s diverse.

So we’re blogging hard to bridge the information gap. That’s our answer and our vision.

[Image credit]