God only knows why, but I took more crap for less traffic on this one...
Anyway, the project, pretty much in its entirety at present, is a domain registration
(widgetbubble.com), with the content of that domain being a couple of technorati charts
that track blog posts tagged "widget" and blog posts that mention "widgets." Apparently
the widget mafia doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
The funny thing is that I'm not actually anti-widget, I'm just a little skeptical. As of today (March of 2007), everybody wants to create a widget, and people are building tools to track widget "pageviews" left and right, but I've seen little if anything that clearly explains to me why widgets are "key" for 2007 and 2008; I'd think that building services and Web sites that offer useful and interesting capabilities would be the big deal, with widgets being a nice-to-have for those sites.
My prediction? Widgets will be very effective for a relatively small number of sites, but that the larger widget obsession will punch the monkey before the end of 2007. [Side note: I haven't gotten very far with it yet, but I'm looking to spread the coinage "punching the monkey" as a web-focused analog to "jumping the shark." It's clever, start using it, please.
Steve Rubel appears to have gotten the joke, at least. One point for me.
Visit widgetbubble.com here, if you're interested. And don't want to run the searches on technorati yourself.