Okay, so it’s really laziness. Or to give myself a little more credit, fatigue. It ain’t easy trying to generate original content on three fronts all the time. Let’s just consider it a little new media experiment, because I do so love playing with new widgets.

skribitObviously reader-writer collaboration is part of the whole Next-Big-Thing in media, what with viewers becoming participants in live-streamed interviews by suggesting questions via Twitter, Flixwagon, or Qik. And while blogs have always been able to rely on comments, Georgia Tech student Paul Stamatiou kicked it up a notch with the recently launched Skribit, which I heard about at SoCon08 last weekend.

Witness the new sidebar resident, the Skribit widget. Pretty self-explanatory, really; where it says, “Click here to suggest a topic,” you uh, do that. Other people can vote on topic they like. I pretend to heed the trend of votes and puzzle up a blog on said topic. Capisce? Feel free to suggest MTV video pieces, as well. I’m really tired.

We’ll see if this lasts longer than previous sidebar widgets of futility like Veeker and Cellblock.



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