I find it to be VERY annoying is when you put content on a site that comes from outside sources and those sources start to slow your site down. I put that LinkLog up on the side of my site and its chugging now. The problem is that the feed is coming from Feedroll and Feedroll is getting its feed from Del.icio.us. So if delicious or feedroll are overwhelmed my blog loads slowly.
There is a lesson to be learned for people doing the webservice thing. If you are going to have bloggers hawkin your services by using them on their own blogs you’d better make sure they run quickly and reliably. Otherwise the bloggers will drop them really quickly. Mental note: dont make stuff that runs slow, especially when it can slow other stuff down…