Burst Blog

Hello, Eric Roach, your incandescent blog recruiter here.

Since I don’t get to post much, I thought I would start by saying a general thank you to all the blogburst members. It is such an honor to work with and on behalf of you all.

If you’re like me, you spend each day reading the internet. I usually print out a hard copy while I am brewing my morning coffee, and then settle down with my badtz-maru clipboard and a freebie hi-liter from some conference or other. Actually I guess it’s more of my firefox clipboard, and my del.icio.us hi-liter, but you get the picture…

Anyways, one of my very favorite aspects of the internet (and the blogs that I sift through each day) is the proclivity of images - images that describe the text, images that set moods, and indeed images that just blow your mind. I love photo posts and cartoon posts and canhazcheeseburger posts.

As I am a human, I immediately categorize and file away for my own memories the effect of those images. Unfortunately, BlogBurst is not human. In order for BlogBurst to help bring these images to the top of a search for content, BlogBurst needs some descriptive text
to help the various widget-y searches and human editors find just the right posts.

Sure, we know there is image searching technology right on the horizon, but for now if you have discovered just the right image that you want to share with the world, please take an extra minute or so to plug in a little written context for the image (or song or video or whatnot). It’ll make it easier to find - not just for us, but for all of searchdom.