iamgarrett

Google’s Blogger tool has a great blogroll gadget, which I’ve always wanted in WordPress. I tried a few plugins that advertised similar behavior but was never quite satisfied – so I made my own.
This will grab all your links with a category of ‘sidebar’ and show them in a list on your sidebar. Specify each link’s RSS/Atom feed address and it will grab the latest post, a link, and reorder the list based on when these posts were written. It only requires that you have jQuery and PHP and uses the Links and Widget section already included in WordPress.

Good Reads

An ordered blogroll widget for your sidebar that displays your favorite blogs, what they're writing, and when.

DCoda

This plugin is only supported on PHP 5.2 or greater.
 
MUWidgets adds widgets to extend the standard WordPress widgets to be able to run as if on another site on the Multisite installation.
You now have a number of new widgets prefixed with the word ‘Site’ that operate the same as the standard WordPress plugins, just with the addition of a ‘Site’ option in the setup. 
You are able to select any Site on the Multisite installation that you have administration access to. 
 Just select the site and click ‘save’ now the widget is operating as if it was on the other site, enabling you to display for example the blogroll or recent posts from the main blog. 

If you are having trouble and cannot find the answers in the <a href="http://muwidgets.dcoda.co.uk/help/faq/" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ</a> you can post your support questions to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/mu-widgets" rel="ugc">WordPress Support Forum</a>
If you find Multisite Widgets useful please rate it at <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mu-widgets/" rel="ugc">wordpress.org</a> and please consider making a <a href="http://muwidgets.dcoda.co.uk/donate/" rel="nofollow ugc">donation</a> to help us set aside more hours to maintain Multisite Widgets
Multisite Widgets is written by <a href='http://dcoda.co.uk' rel="nofollow ugc">dcoda</a>
You can check out our other plugins <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/users/dcoda/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>
If you require a custom plugin you can contact us <a href="http://dcoda.co.uk/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> and maybe we could write it for you.
<h3>Copyright</h3>
(c) Copyright DCoda Limited, 2007 -, All Rights Reserved.
This code is released under the GPL license version 2, available here:
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt</a>
There are so many possibly configurations of installation the plugin can be installed on we limit testing to a PHP 5.2+ Linux platform running the latest version of WordPress at the time of release but it is released WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; 
 without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Multisite Widgets

Extends the standard WordPress widgets to be able to run on another blog on the site.

Good Reads vs Multisite Widgets