Anyway... cool article from NY Times Tech section on 'blog bling', more commonly known as 'widgets' (and not to be confused with the kind of widgets that are desktop apps), and their growing popularity.
Nice quote here on the different types or categories of 'widgets' (you know me, all about the categorization!):
Ed Anuff, a co-founder of Widgetbox.com, divides widgets into three categories. “One is self-expression widgets, like photo galleries, games or YouTube videos that you like,” he said. The second category includes widgets that generate revenue for a blogger, like a box that displays auctions from a particular eBay category, or a blogger’s favorite DVDs from Amazon.com. The third category, Mr. Anuff said, encompasses “site-enhancement widgets, like discussion forums, news feeds or a
guest book, which provide better utility for your Web site.”
So I guess I'm going to go to that Widgetbox site and check out a little adornment for my humble, and plain, virtual self here. I have always wondered about that map with the red push-pin like dots I've seen on many a blog, and now thanks to this piece I know where it comes from[ Clustr Maps ]-- so maybe something 'useful' like that. Definitely not some of the more asinine ones like "ugly person of the day'" (what the hell are they thinking??! and no, on 2nd thought I am NOT going to outlink to that one!). Or maybe this thing called Sphere It (but it's more a bookmarklet, and the widget isn't available directly for Blogger. Hmmm). Nothing silly or wildly extraneous. Refined, classy. Like the quote from the last page of the Times article, somewhere "between Mr T. and Audrey Hepburn."
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