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Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Great blog widgets

I've been looking up some good blog widgets.

You can see a few of them in the sidebars to this blog.


Mood display
http://www.imood.com/


Librarything to display a random sample of books from your library
http://www.librarything.com/

Provide a translation of your blog on demand... (Wordpress only: not tried)
http://trevorcreech.com/blog/2006/04/27/translate-widget/

Embed your Flickr photos
http://flickrslidr.com/

Or use Slide.com to create a slideshow of photos
http://www.slide.com/

Get a cartoon updated daily! from Gaping Void
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/002978.html

and lots from http://www.widgetbox.com/

including turning your own blog into a widget - that is, a BLIDGET! (I have my blog as a widget on my website at helenwhitehead.com)

Labels: blogs, widgets

posted by Helen Whitehead 9:18 AM

Helen Whitehead's blog of e-learning, digital literacy, online writing, and digital creativity.

Which methods and techniques using new technologies are of real use?

Writing in the digital age is so much more than delivering information, or traditional stories and poems electronically. Digital forms of literature can include text, hyperlinks, multi-linear plots, superlinear narrative, graphics, interactivity, animation... and so much more.

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