Thanks Paulius!

On Wednesday I posted something I thought no one would respond to, which quickly became the hot new online phenomenon known as 'Michelle's Chuckle Button'.

Ok, so I exaggerate a bit. It might not be a full-blown phenomenon.

Thanks to Paulius, who investigated, discovered and reported about the 'Reactions' feature already built into Blogger. Very cool!

So now my blog has a 'chuckle' button and a 'meh' button at the bottom of each post, terms which I think fully capture the broad emotional spectrum of online opinion.

It's taken a long long time, but Blogger has finally started delivering some very neat tools. I would have been willing to pay for all these extras, but hey - they're free!

Good Idea!

Michelle had an idea for a 'Chuckle Button' that could be added to blog templates. Many people read blogs every day and think "That post was cute, but I really have no comment to leave."

Well how about a chuckle button? Granted, there are things like Digg, but who wants to create an account and log in?

There may be something like this already - is it the 'Like' button? Don't you have to be logged in for that to work as well?

No accounts, no logging in, I say!

You could click the chuckle button and the chuckle counter would increment, and the writer would know that somewhere, there was one more person who enjoyed their silly little words.