02/09: Room In Your Sidebar For Feedjit

I came across this new toy for bloggers whilst roaming around this Sunday and reading a wide variety of blogs.

I call it a toy because beyond being mildly interesting I'm not sure it brings with it any great benefits. However it's free and very simple to add to your pages with a quick javascript cut and paste. If you like the idea of a running record of where your visitors have come from and where they go running off to and showing it off for the world to see, then FEEDJIT might just be for you.

Yes, I've plonked it in the sidebar of this blog so that you can see what it does, but I'm not sure how long it will be staying. They claim over 3 million widget impressions in a week, so obviously a lot of bloggers have decided it's a good thing. As a Sunday timewaster, it was an interesting new discovery, but it will eat up a chunk of space that could maybe be better used - in making you some money perhaps :-)

Update. In actual fact, I've revised my opinion slightly - the information displayed is probably of some interest to many visitors, including as it does the pages where people came from, be it a search engine or other referring site and what posts they came to view. In effect it's a little like a popular posts type plugin and also credits other bloggers who have linked to you. Maybe I'll let it stay after all.....