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."