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June 24, 2006

The Best Widget Ever - Gapingvoid

Michael Arrington

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If you don’t know Hugh Macleaod and his daily cartoons on Gapingvoid, you aren’t in the cool crowd. His art is clever, insightful and always timely. It’s often strange. He also doesn’t mind pissing people off every once in a while.

Hugh joined the Gillmor Gang as a guest for an April podcast. We spoke about how Hugh might generate more attention for his work, and the idea of a blog widget came up. Well, two months later Hugh’s launched it. Want to show his daily cartoons on your blog or other website? Get the code here.

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    June 24th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

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  1. Huw Leslie

    June 24th, 2006 at 11:10 am

    Gapingvoid has to be one of the funniest blogs on the web, but unlike some cartoons they actually say something, rather than just being a silly picture. Hugh Macloed is a legend.

  2. Don Wilson

    June 24th, 2006 at 11:13 am

    I think I’ll pass on this one.

  3. anon

    June 24th, 2006 at 11:48 am

    yawn.

  4. BK

    June 24th, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    best widget ever? -_-

  5. Michael Arrington

    June 24th, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    BK - yeah, for me anyway. I love his cartoons.

  6. jimbo

    June 24th, 2006 at 1:49 pm

    if it’s the best widget ever, why isn’t it on this site? i guess the search widget is really the best widget ever.

    all this “widget” talk is nonsense anyways. people have been including snippets of code on pages for years. nothing new.

  7. Pavel

    June 24th, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    Contemporary blog contains widgets, snippets and all that modern stuff. But can anyone tell where is blogging itself? ;)

  8. Charlie

    June 24th, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Yeah, really funny… *yawn* no wonder I’ve never heard of him.

  9. hugh macleod

    June 24th, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    Thanks for the kind words, Michael =)

  10. Dat Nguyen

    June 24th, 2006 at 3:58 pm

    Hugh Macloed is probably in the top 5% of internet funniness and he’s always on the edge with product distribution. This widget concept goes well with his creative commons licensed illustrations and cups and stuff with his prints. Good stuff.

  11. Kevin Boyer

    June 24th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    I must be missing something here. I think I found maybe two of his cartoons funny. It might have to do with that fact that I couldn’t figure out whether some of the poeple were desks that had gotten caught in some sort of blender or people, or some mixture of both: http://www.gapingvoid.com/hewhowould.jpg

  12. John Figs

    June 24th, 2006 at 6:41 pm

    What a lame widget

  13. Phil Sherry

    June 25th, 2006 at 2:29 am

    It’s half way through 2006. Talk about a “widget” on a tech page, such as this, and people are going to expect to be able to download a Dashboard/Konfabulator widget.

  14. Victor

    June 25th, 2006 at 2:35 am

    And it’s also now a netvibes module !
    you can find it on http://eco.netvibes.com/modules/3695/gapingvoid

  15. Ma_rio

    June 25th, 2006 at 5:36 am

    Do you think “widget” can be a buzzword with some weight in the next few months?

  16. Billy Warhol

    June 25th, 2006 at 8:59 am

    In doing a lil research for my own AdWidget conglomerate I did a Google Search & in NicheBot & Widgets don’t really show up on the Radar yet. So there’s still plenty of time to get in on the groundfloor!

    Widgets might have been around for sometime but it’s only recently that Bloggers have started adopting them. & it’s going to take mass use but like AdSense it will have the power to create whole new Economy’s not yet even imagined!

    Humour like gapingvoid is much welcomed & much needed in this crazyworld*

    ;))

  17. Jake

    June 26th, 2006 at 5:27 am

    First let me give kudos to Hugh for doing something mostly unique in the blogosphere - creating HUGE traffic and interest.

    But in general, I tend not to understand 90% of the cartoons he posts, and the 10% I do understand I just don’t find even mildly amusing. I follow the industry as much as anyone else… I just don’t get it.

    That’s the great thing about the internet/blogosphere - not everything is for everyone!

  18. JL

    June 26th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    He ain’t nothin’ compared to the original:

    http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/

  19. NJG from NYC

    June 26th, 2006 at 9:41 am

    You can get a lot of mileage (both comic and financial) out of skewering the business world — look at Scott Adams’ Dilbert empire. Hugh can be funny when he plays in that pool.

    Where he lost me was quite some time ago when he ran a multi-part series about being creative. It started out well, but then descended into a series of value judgements about people’s life choices and I checked out. Telling people that they are soulless drones because they’re not out there being creative all day is neither funny nor inspiring.

  20. James Thomson

    June 26th, 2006 at 9:42 am

    it’s not the one’s you don’t ‘get’ that matter - its the one’s that you do get that make it so worthwhile - the irrereverance towards the stuck up, stick in the mud, mindless status quo can be awesome

  21. B.L. Ochman

    June 26th, 2006 at 10:54 am

    lemme guess: the commenters who wrote rude things about Hugh Macleod work for agencies or corporations.

    I think his Hugh’s a freaking genius; consistently on top of the curve and ahead of the crowd.
    B.L.

  22. Pete Mauro

    June 26th, 2006 at 12:50 pm

    I heard the gilmor gang 2 months ago, thought he was interesting and added his feed to my reader. At first I really liked his drawings - hell I even tried to fogure out how to order his wine to support the guy. Then after a while they all started looking and sounding the same. At the end of the day only one in 10 were meaningfull to me so I unsubed.

  23. hugh macleod

    June 27th, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    http://www.gapingvoid.com/Move.....03000.html

  24. Pi

    June 28th, 2006 at 2:08 am

    Super. SUPER.

    Been readin GV for a while now. Funny.

    And this widget has got to be better than a stupid analog clock or a world map showing vistors. Any effin’ day.

    Super.

  25. Micah Condon

    September 17th, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    Very cool - much more interesting than another calendar :-)

    Check out my Daily Painters Widget - a fun way to add some fresh art to your blog.
    http://www.dailypainters.com/d.....widget.php

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