Too many accessories

Fred Wilson has often talked about how he considers his blog to be, in a lot of ways, a collection of various independent services. He’s got the Word of Blog ad network, Amazon.com recommendations, Feedblitz e-mail service, and about eight million other little tools that have cropped up in the increasingly web 2.0 space.

While he’s correct that a collection of applets and tools are part of what personalizes and gives content and character to a blog, there is such a thing as too much. In general, I like to read blogs on their web pages, so that I can see all of these extras and experience the virtual “home” for each of the writers. But Fred has too much stuff.

It takes an unbelievably long time to load his blog, as each of his services log in a check up with their respective services. I can load and read Jeff Jarvis’s eighteen posts for the day before I get to the text of Fred’s first post. Despite broadband connections, things still take time to load, and internet viewers are as impatient as ever. Don’t forget that.