I do frequent a few blogs other than my own, and I stumble upon many new ones every so often, some of them interesting, most of them only temporarily so.

One of the things I've noted that blogs I don't bookmark have in common is (except for content that doesn't interest me) their over-abusive use of stock images. Every blog post has an image, and sometimes not only just one per blog, but at least one image between each section of text. Undeniably images communicate much easier than words, and can be used to both give better impact to the text itself or convey a message of its own, but when the pictures aren't relevant to the post at all the communication doesn't work right.

A picture of a man with a briefcase in a blog about how to make money quickly may seem relevant, but if these pictures are continuously used within different contexts they start losing their value. If the same type of image is used within different types of blogs within the same context it loses it's value; when there's an image in each post, then each image doesn't have the same impact as it would if they were rarer. What I'm trying to say is that too much of any form of media, images included, take away the general benefit. If I were to post images in every post here, many images would go by unnoticed, with fewer images each one breaks out easily in the much larger flow of words.

If I visit a photoblog, or read guides, comics & other things were images are commonly used I don't mind the images at all, they are the focus, in fact I prefer blogs with more images than text. I'd do the same if I had a lot of images to post, but I don't, I'm a writer and thus you'll find for the most part only text in my blogs. So what am I saying? I don't like filler images, images posted without purpose, images that weren't created for a specific blog post or images that the blog post isn't about. In an art blog, the picture should be the focus, in a regular blog the picture should be relevant to the post. The picture shouldn't just be added for the sake of adding a picture. Kapish?