MOG Navel-gazing: Custom Widgets

I was doing some work on my main MOG page today when a few questions struck me:
1) Does anyone ever notices the "custom widgets" I've put on my page? (which lead me to..)2) How often do we view MOGgers' main pages?
To fully disclose, I don't view the main MOGger pages that often. Usually it is when I've seen someone new and investigate whether I want to trust them, to receive news of when they post. For those MOGgers I already trust, I rarely check their main page, but rather follow the individual post links that get e-mailed to me.
I imagine that many other MOGgers follow the same modus operandi. Which returns me to question one - had anyone noticed the custom widgets I've created. Of the MOGs I frequent, only a few have made extensive use (at least, as much as I do) of custom widgets. Not even our "fearless leader":http://mog.com/david_hyman has created any.
I generally classify custom widgets into two categories: "I think it would be easy for MOG to do this for us" and "That's creative/unique." Obviously items like "EMCD Notches in the Belt":http://mog.com/Dale and "DIY Things":http://mog.com/LadyC ought not be expected to be presupplied, but perhaps a "Widget You Fill In Yourself" for "Favorite MOG Posts":http://mog.com/tybees could be added, or even better - a button similar to the "Like" button on posts. Also, I would think it would be fairly easy to implement tracking widgets that record recent comments or an index of all your MOG posts. They could be throttled like the "Last Played Songs," "Recently Added to Music Collection," or "My Digital Music Collection" widgets to prevent them from taking up the entire page.
I will grant the PTB that these widgets are easy to custom-create for those who wish to do so. However, there's a whole "field of economics":http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0502/features/economics.shtml that shows people tend to choose the defaults provided to them. As evidenced here at MOG, most of the MOGgers out there have some of the site-created widgets on their page, but substantially fewer have made the effort to make custom widgets to express themselves.
Just a few thoughts I had. Now I'm off to add this post to the index custom widget at the bottom of my page...
--Torch