I am, in general, not a huge fan of huge piles of widgets on blogs– I don’t really know why. The only reason that I can think of is that too many widgets offend my delicate design sensibilities. Blogs covered with widgets tend to look like patchwork quilts to me. Even though my blog template is pretty much a slightly-altered version of a free WordPress template, I like the clean look.

Yet here I am, dropping a second widget on my site… Not only does it happen to actually match my current blog template quite a bit better than the first blog widget I added (sorry Mark!), but it also happens to be one that I helped build.

So, without further ado, I introduce you to BlogBuddy (the gray flavored widget on the right). You can get yours here!

Phil Bogle, CTO at Jobster, was the technical genius behind the widget. See his writeup here.

Blog Buddy is decidedly a beta project– many of the features that I think really will make it sizzle are still to come!