A new widget from Widgetbox allows you to turn your blog into a widget which allows anyone to grab the code and slap your headlines onto their blog.
It’s a simple process, just sign up at Widgetbox if you don’t already have an account, (it’s free) click on the Blidget box on this page and type in your blog’s URl. The Blidget app auto-discovers your feed, pulls the headlines, put them in a scrollbox (Iframe) and then allows you to choose the color and image you’d like to use for your Blidget. The look is customizable for the people that want to put your Blidget on their blog.
If you’d like to see my Blidget, click on the Blidget button on the right beneath the big RSS button.
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Word Of The Day- vicissitude: Dictionary.com Word of the Day December 31, 2009vicissitude: a change in condition or fortune.
- vicissitude: Dictionary.com Word of the Day December 31, 2009
- Quote Of The Day
- Frank Lloyd Wright"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Neologisms
- wheredunit December 22, 2009wheredunit n. A murder mystery or detective story where the location of a crime plays a central role. Also: where-dunit. Example Citations: In some mystery novels, the wheredunit is as important as the whodunit. The locale, rather than merely serving as the backdrop to the plot, is an essential ingredient that lifts the story out of the ordinary, providing a […]
- frugal fatigue December 18, 2009frugal fatigue n. Mental exhaustion caused by constant frugality during hard economic times. Also: frugality fatigue. Example Citations: [I]t seems that after a year of watching our wallets, bank accounts, and 401(k) plans with the tenacity of a wheelchair-bound Jimmy Stewart in an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, some are throwing up their hands, taking out their […]
- nontroversy December 17, 2009nontroversy n. A false or non-existent controversy. Example Citations: Unfortunately a number of gotcha moments only became controversial when the media, like blood-deprived leeches, clung to the nontroversy and spun it through its continuous loop of 24-hours news, which only contains an estimated 30 minutes of new news according to a recent Political Fallou […]
- manufactroversy December 17, 2009manufactroversy n. A contrived or non-existent controversy, manufactured by political ideologues or interest groups who use deception and specious arguments to make their case. Example Citations: During a question and answer session after a talk I recently gave, I was asked for my opinion about the vaccine/autism controversy. That was easy: my opinion is tha […]
- foodoir December 16, 2009
- warmist December 11, 2009warmist n. A person who believes that the current global warming trend is the result of man-made factors. Also: global warmist. —adj. Example Citations: The road to Copenhagen has proved to be a rocky one. This past fortnight, ahead of the climate-change summit that starts in the Danish capital on Monday, the air has been thick with pejorative cries of […]
- meformer December 10, 2009meformer n. A social network user who posts updates that mostly deal with the user's activities, thoughts, and feelings. [Cf. informer.] Example Citations: Love tweeting about your social life and crave the opportunity to share your thoughts, feelings and emotions? Then you're a meformer. But if you prefer posting links to news websites, love inter […]
- dysrationalia December 9, 2009dysrationalia n. The tendency to think or act irrationally in certain situations, despite having sufficient intelligence. —dysrational adj. Example Citations: In 1994, Stanovich began comparing people's scores on rationality tests with their scores on conventional intelligence tests. What he found is that they don't have a lot to do with one […]
- deleb December 8, 2009deleb n. A dead celebrity, particularly one used to endorse products. Example Citations: Revenues from delebs are already rising as rights companies become more aggressive about advertising and product deals, says Reeder, whose company represents estates including Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol and Johnny Cash. ... [A] deleb cannot be caught sniffing cocaine o […]
- drive-by porn December 4, 2009drive-by porn n. Sexually explicit images viewable on a video screen in a nearby vehicle. Also: drive-by pornography, drive-by smut. Example Citations: "It was like when a friend tells you too many details about their personal life," says Jess Mortimer, who spent an eternity stuck in a Beltway traffic jam behind some guy watching really acrobatic s […]
- wheredunit December 22, 2009
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February 12, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Your blidget is really neat because of your headlines: your headlines read like those of a magazine/publication for professionals. I keep forgetting how important writing good headlines is, and this is definitely a reminder I should take seriously.