I know, it's ridiculous. But people do want to see how many likes the story has, and cross-service comments are pretty next-wave, so you have to have widgets no

I know, it's ridiculous. But people do want to see how many likes the story has, and cross-service comments are pretty next-wave, so you have to have widgets now for 5 social sites, 7 comment systems, global analytics, live analytics, sitewide ad, contextual ad, site cookie and maybe add two more because I haven't thought of them... that's 19 right there! We really need something better than having these MASSIVE amounts of callouts. It's like those pictures of Internet Explorer totally taken over by toolbars, except it's a different set on every single site on the web. Bah!