| Well, in the case of blogrolling, you can access the list from a php script. There's an example in the documentation on the site. If the site is down, the links can be left out.
Of course, this is a solution only for people who have access to their blog source code, and who know how to do something about it.
It's a technical point, but I am a bit more comfortable serving my blog up as a static html page, without network calls embedded. The embedded javascript calls can fail and cause some browsers to hang. When a php or perl interface is used in building the page there are a greater number of choices for dealing with failures.
Danny Sullivan
president, Eversun Software
blog: enterblog.com - computing and outsourcing
> Frank Patrick wrote:
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>For the last couple weeks, it was Haloscan commenting.
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>Today it's Blogrolling.com.
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>When widely used outside services have problems, the whole blogging scene bogs down, as blogs stop loading for minutes while trying to access the outside servers.
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>Frustrating.
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>Are there any template tricks (I use Blogger), to accelerate past such problems...any way to "time out" attempts to access the outside services and move on to render the rest of the page?
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