A picture is worth a thousand words. Right? Well, sometimes, but when it comes to your blog, a good picture really doesn’t make up for a well written article. However, that does not mean that you should not include pictures in your blog posts. Most of the experts (of which I am not) agree that a well placed, related image will entice your readers to read your post. After all, that is what we are all trying to achieve isn’t it?

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Images have always been an important part of a blog and now with the scheduled demise of Google Reader, they are becoming more important than ever before.

What does Google Reader’s death sentence have to do with images? Everything. As bloggers we have all come to rely on traffic from our RSS feeds. I have written several posts about the importance of the RSS and have explained why I love Google Reader. Like most techno-geeks, I too have relied on Google Reader for the majority of my blog reading over the past few years. I have an extensive collection of RSS feeds that I monitor constantly throughout the day looking for insightful posts, new technology, and ideas for the church in general. However, that is all about to come to an abrupt end in a few months when Google pulls the plug on their reader.

Like thousands of others around the world, I too, am in search of a new RSS feed reader. (Google will not publicly release the numbers of exactly how many people use this service, but suffice it to say that there are many.) There are actually plenty of options to choose from on your desktop, your Android, and your iOS device to replicate the experience that we are used to with the reader. However, many of these new readers are delivering content in a more polished manner much like a news magazine.

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