Somewhere on my web page (perhaps along the lower border) will be a tiny horizontally-oriented applet (maybe 28 pixels high and 500 wide) that looks like this. . .
Comment about the site? [combo box] [text entry field] [submit button]
The combo box would have choices like "just saying hi", "problem with the site", etc. Upon pressing submit, the applet would drop the comment into a database along with the referring URL.
Meanwhile I'd also have a widget running locally, either on my desktop or on my chumby or on a private webpage somewheres that looks like this. . .
On page http://www.thecodezone.com/whatever.php
someone commented "link to page whatever is broken"
[prev message] [next message] [delete message]
And every once in a while, the applet would check the database for new entries. I could then flip through the messages and either act on 'em or delete 'em.
Seems pretty absurdly simple. Probably a day's worth of work. I was thinking a few lines of PHP and SWX on the server side because that'll keep the client applet really small.
I got the idea from this guy's little "make my bunny say something" widget in his blog. I thought it was cute that you could send him live messages via that little plastic bunny gizmo, but the big problem I saw was that you had to be near the bunny to get the message. Simulating something like that with the Chumby would give you the advantage of being able to page through the messages interactively as well as being able to check the messages remotely if you're away from the machine (because the view-messages widget is just a SWF file that you could run in a web page).
So now somebody needs to convince me that I'm reinventing the wheel :)
