A blogring connects a circle of Weblogs with a common focus or theme. The theme can be anything: a group of friends, a support group, sports fans, etc.

Widgetbox has just launched Widgetbox Network that leverages the blogring concept by defining a collection of thematic channels such as Art, Business, Family, Sports, Travel, and so on.  Bloggers are encouraged to join a relevant channel by registering an RSS feed with Widgetbox and creating a Widgetbox component (called a Blidget) that displays the latest posting from your blog.

Widgetbox provides then a "network channel" component for each channel in its network that displays the latest posting from all members of that channel.

I've registered this site with as a member of the Tech News network channel (it seemed the most relevant, though I sometimes stray from techno-geek speak in this blogsite.)  You can see the Tech News component in the lower right pane of this site.

What do you think?  Does this seem like a useful idea?  Or is this just another avenue that spammers will jump on and render useless?