After I posted this silly pseudo-widget idea, Lauren emailed to say: “Wouldn’t an automated Wikipedia contrails widget be an imposition on your browser history? Scary!”
Maybe, but Slifeshare, which tracks every minute of your online activity in order to find other people doing similar things, is approximately 100 times scarier. Yet isn’t this what all this widgetry is leading toward? Banal surveillance media? Let’s be interesting then.
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If you ever join Slifeshare or anything like it (and allow people to see more than intellectual browsing like wordie and wikipedia), I vow to stand in Columbus Circle for five hours holding a big sign that says: “I was wrong! (Will sing for spare change.)” You’ll even be permitted to photograph and Flickr the humiliation.
For the record, I would never, ever join Slifeshare. Search history alone freaks me out. But I think these kinds of services will be getting more and more popular.