Elgan: The rise of the social picture gadget

08.09.2012
The new language of social media isn't made up of words; it's made up of pictures.

Everywhere you look on the social networks, posts with pictures get most of the attention and engagement.

Let's examine why images suddenly trump words on social sites and how this uber-trend will change your gadgets.

Blogging started out as public journaling. It was all about words.

One of the oldest blogs still in existence (and still one of the best) is Dave Winer's Scripting News blog. (If you visit , you can see that it's not exactly "visual.")