The single most interesting thing about the blogging phenomenon to date has been the absence of images. Any page looks better with images. Old media learned this a long time ago. Text-only blogs look so ... whiny.
There is much speculation that the arrival of picture-phones will herald a new era of image-laden blogs, or moblogs, as already mentioned in Mediajunk. Picture-phones mainly offer convenience -- your phone is now a camera that can instantly send pictures to an email address.
But the picture quality from cameras is poor at best. For better results, digital cameras are still preferred. Okay, so there's a little more manual work involved, but the end site will justify the means.
So how come blogs don't already have pictures? Well, some of them, at least, do. And, surprise surprise, they look a lot better than their textist counterparts. Photoblog.org has a list of photoblogs from around the world, many of them excellent. (I suspect, by the way, that the name 'photoblog' will go the way of other ejargon and eventually we will simply come to expect a blog to have pictures.)
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Slightly related to this is the interesting and smoothly-designed Mirror Project which, as the name suggests, contains pictures that people have taken of themselves in reflective surfaces. Yes, it's pointless. But you're dying to see it now, aren't you?
*Sigh* -- okay, here you go...
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