I subscribe to Forbes on line and one of the interesting formats that Matt Woolsey, who writes a column for the Real Estate section, uses when he writes an article is he adds to his post a slideshow of photos that represents his article.
He creates a story by using photos usually 10 and it brings his point home in a crystal clear way. I was thinking about this and I could see might be a great format for Localism posts here on ActiveRain or in your own personal blogs.
I like other bloggers use photos but probably not to their best advantage and certainly not as cleverly as Matt does. As an example, instead of just writing about it, create the essence of the article in pictures. This will take some re-thinking and practice but I for one would like to learn to do this. If you can get your point across by reading the headlines and fewer words and having the pictures tell the story, it would be another cool way to increase your readership.
This is actually quite a simple idea but some of the best ideas are. Simple that is.
You may be right on on this one William...people really do love to look at pictures! It keeps their attention!