‘Right now, people want a visual internet; we sense a slight depression in interest in relentless, link-heavy, text-driven weblogs.

As striking imagery becomes the dominant mode of communicating ideas – the relentless reel of the tumblelog, for example – texts are too easy to disregard unread…Our stats are down, month on month, sliced and diced…by the gradual realisation that any more information, imagery, links or comments is not automatically good, but just so much noise…’

As somebody who runs a text-heavy website, frequently presenting long posts unsuitable for micro-digestion, that has just branched out into a weekly text link round-up, this piece from things magazine offers much food for thought.

If I exmaine changes in my own use of the Internet over the past 2- 3 years I have to acknowledge that it’s become increasingly characterised by constant low-level snacking, more so than the digestion of a few, meaty pieces of content per day.

That said, my RRS feeder tracks photo tumblrs, link blogs and more substantial vessels of information and discourse almost equally, so it’s not been a case of wholesale switching from one mode of consumption to another.

Even so, I’m not sure I could contest the claim that this leaves me “feeling entertained, a bit poorer and none the wiser on a regular basis”.

Can you?