I love the idea of Snipperoo and widgets in general. There is of course the conflict between widget-rich blogs and the tendency for people to read more and more via RSS but I still believe that the whole idea has legs.

I signed up for the beta when it was opened and got an account a few months back. I have made four serious attempts to configure a widget and have to admit that I’m flummoxed.

I’ve rebuilt linux kernels, compiled XEmacs on cygwin, debugged set-top boxes via RS232 but I cannot figure out how to add individual widgets to a panel.

Somehow something called Badgr appeared the last time I logged in and I could add that but I’ve no idea why. I’ve tried to follow the help page but I don’t get the option to add widgets no matter what I do. I just keep getting sent to a directory which has links to sites and for some bizarre reason other links which try to add widgets to my Google home page. What the hell am I missing? I hope the site revamp is rolled out soon as Snipperoo has so much potential.

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