More choice with WordPress widgets

Some interesting moves going on with the free TypePad, the hosted service you pay for. Coming this week are TypePad Typelists. I'm especially interested in this as I've been experimenting with WordPress platform/application you install on your own server (ie, not the hosted service). After some initial difficulties with it, I've now got the modules working fine. These modules work in a similar fashion to the new widgets, ie, Ajax/JavaScript based that you click-and-drag on your screen to position them where you want. (Modules, widgets - what's in a name?) What's key about this functionality is that you don't need to know anything about the underlying code, nor have to dive into that code, in order to include and lay out the elements you want in your blog sidebar. That ease-of-use is one of TypePad's key appeals. And the sidebar is a pretty important feature of your blog that provides visitors with a structure to enable them to easily navigate through your blog to find the things they're interested in or that you want them to see, and which doesn't distract from the primary content, ie, your posts. I also have a Movable Type which, as far as I know, doesn't have such functionality. Yet. Speaking of K2, expectation is mounting about the coolness of the next version (it's currently in beta). DiggThis Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: