The best widget on the internet

If you’re wondering what the best widget you can use is, then I’ve found it. And surprisingly, despite the fact my taste in blogs and websites is fairly liberal, it’s not being used very much, meaning you can become a trendsetter by copying and pasting.

It’s not a zombie bite in Facebook, it won’t display your latest Twitter update, it doesn’t show yur Xbox 360 gamertag or make Myspace actually worth using…

It simply shows a fragment of a text for which someone in the world has been imprisoned or punished, to try and stop censorship on the internet.


It’s from Amnesty International and can be found at http://irrepressible.info/addcontent.

And I’m amazed at the amount of people who blathered on about the restrictions of the Bloggers Code of Conduct, or could threaten Kathy Sierra etc, but won’t do something as simple as publishing a widget on their blog…

If you are reading this and feel inspired to include the Amnesty International widget, or you’ve already plugged it in, do let me know. At the very least it’ll restore my faith in part of humanity…

Mashable gets it’s own social network

For ages, www.mashable.com has been a really good news site covering social networks, but now mashable man Pete Cashmore has thrown his hat into the social network provider ring with www.my.mashable.com.

It’s clean and simple to use, and fairly basic at the moment, but the most interesting aspect is that you can join networks for all the social sites you use, such as Myspace, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Pandora etc. New starters like Virb are also included.

My lovely new profile is here.

It’s quite interesting finding out exactly how many social sites I’ve signed up for, and seeing other users, but I’d hazard a guess that this is the first step towards integration across sites.