Perspectives

Folks from Minkey just gave a presentation on the minkey widget at proto.in. Pretty interesting, Sort of similar to adsense/ypn except, the content is organic. Something like a recommendation for the blog reader on other similar content pages..

Check it out at minekey.com

Yesterday, I bought Freakonomics from Landmark. The cover they gave me had interesting tid-bits about reading. One that caught my mind was this line “Shakespeare has used 29,000 different words in his plays”. I was wondering where I would stand compared to Shakespeare. And the closest I am to writing, is my blog.

So, this is the idea. Create a small embeddable widget that will compute the number of distinct words I have used in my blog and allow me to show it off on my blog. Either as absolute number or by a simple (number_of_my_words/29000)*100 percentage. The widget should be similar in concept to the “feedburner” widget. I already have a design in mind, but dont think have the bandwidth to do it now. If you have some spare time or if you are someone who wants to work on web technologies and dont know where and how to begin, this is a nice one. If you want to get my opinion on how to do it, leave me a comment and I will be happy to help you.