Having gadgets on your blog is a way to help your views.  Such as translate, blog stats, search box, poll, newsreel, etc.  Having Vokis and fun little games as some of your gadgets keeps you viewers entertained.  You can rearrange you gadgets to you satisfaction.  Newsreel is a cool gadget that google provide.  As a gadget it will give you news everyday.  The search box is a useful tool to help viewers search your blog in order to find a certain topic.  Translate is also a cool tool to help people who speak different languages read your blog.  If you have the translate tool you just pull down the languages and pick your language.

 Having gadgets on your blog will make your blog more exciting and entertaining, as well as helpful