I do not visit many blogs often, at least I do not choose to. The one blog that I do visit is a photoblog by a friend of mine, shantydorm.tumblr.com. I like to visit this blog because I have always liked his photography work. I use a web application called Stumble Upon and that takes me to several different blogs that have interesting news articles or food recipes, but I am never impressed enough to remember the name of them.
Some of the blogs that I have seen trough Stumble Upon that covered news just seemed to write artcles based on other mainstream news outlets so I would say that I prefer going straight to the source.
I don't think that I would want to "covertly" build a buzz for a product if I am being paid to promote it. That sounds like a very sneaky and manipulating thing to do, especially if you have a faithful following. I would much rather be upfront about my reasons for promoting something. I have always felt that being truthful and open to you audience will get the best responses even if at first they don't agree with it.
When it comes to taking effective photographs for a feature story, you need to be able to capture part of the story in the picture. A good way to do this is by taking environmental portraits, pictures that capture the subject in their normal environment. This can help show the persons story in a still picture.
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