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Root Worms

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Root.net has released a handy little widget that displays your attention trust data, in this case your click trends. Top clicks, gainers and losers as you can see below.

This is a lovely idea as it allows people to passively show what they are interested in. You don’t have to do anything extra. Just put the widget somewhere that people can see, have your Attention Recorder on and browse.

There is one problem with the widget though. As you can see my top “click” is pagead2.googlesyndication.com which I assume is some Google AdSense service and is not something I have ever actively clicked on. Next is BlinkList, GMail, Google and BlogLines. Those are all services that I use all day but are not terribly interesting to anyone else. You really don’t need to know I use GMail all day, it is my main email client.

The widget needs a filter list so that I can filter out these common sites and let you rather see the new sites and pages I am paying attention too. Hopefully the Root.net team can implement this.

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