Okay, so I want to add a widget to the sidebar – even though I’m trying to be  very skimpy on the widgets because I know they tend to slow some computers down and I like a clean look. But I noticed the neato “Danielle’s Shared Items” on Danielle Bean’s blog culled from Google Reader, and I thought…ah-ha..there’s a way to share what I’m reading without having to construct whole blog posts around them. And then feeling bad that the blog post I constructed isn’t very good or guilty that I’ve not constructed blog posts about every worthy discovery of the day….
But what’s on Danielle’s is javascript-based and you can’t do javascript on WordPress.com blogs – on WordPress.org blogs (which are hosted on your own server, etc.) you can, but not on these freebies. Then I saw the “Blogs I’m Reading” widget on the Inhabitatio Dei blog – clearly a WordPress.com blog (and a good one!), so I did a little exploring and finally took the time to figure out del.icio.us (so many applications…so little time. And interest, to be honest…) and figured out that it would probably accomplish the goal. So if you look down you can see it there on the right, at the bottom.
Problem – I don’t like the way it looks. Text is too smashed together. I guess it is a factor of the template and the way widgets on this template appear..but..any ideas other than changing the template, which I’m not going to do just for this purpose? Any other ideas on ways to keep up an ongoing feed of blog posts and other items I’ve found interesting?