Since the launching of the Seeing the Picture blog in July, 2008, postings have been added at the rate of about one per week. As the announcement of the blog stated, the general theme is the unique aspects of pictures on the Web, using the background of work with pictures in Hardin MD.

Themes discussed include Google Book Search, digitization efforts in libraries, Google Flu Trends, eBooks, iPhone, thumbnails, and zooming/panning interfaces. The blog has served as a vehicle for discussion of pictures, especially color pictures, in eBooks, including the copyright status of pictures in Google Book Search.