User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-1632443-20101003031234/@comment-4713673-20101004201121

In the future we'll be adding more modules to the sidebar which will allow for more surfaced content there. The sidebar is also meant to be a content area, the modules you see there now are just a starting point. This is a work in progress! We have a lot of other ideas about what will be useful there, it sounds like you have some as well. If so, we'd love to hear them. You can use the green feedback icon to submit them during the public beta.