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An interesting post by Darren over on Tablet Minds got me thinking. Darren asked the question:
“Just curious, do you, as a Tablet PC Blog reader, like to see a photo of the person you are reading?”
I don’t know that the presence of a picture is going to influence how I feel about a blog one way or another over the long term. Indeed once I have added feed to my newsreader (I use several) I rarely visit the actual site at all. Over the long term the only thing that is going to keep a blog in my blog roll is interesting content. It does not even have to be that frequent. If more often than not when new stuff appears and I read it and it is interesting then the blog will likely stay around.
Where I think a picture may have some influence is in helping me decide if I add a blog to my feeds when I find it. I believe I may be more likely to add a blog to my feeds if there is a picture. Following this realisation I am seriously considering add a picture to my blog – because getting your blog onto people’s radar is half the battle. After all Clive Thompson – as quoted in an unrelated but interesting article on The MindJet Blog - "Information is no longer a scarce resource - attention is."