Personally, I’m quick to ridicule them and say “don’t use their service!” But, the bottom line is that if they’re the only ones serving bio images to sites across the Web, then they’re going to be running a very popular service.

But, I still maintain that a true professional is going to do whatever he or she can to avoid having elements, be they JS or otherwise, served externally to their site.

And what if you have like 100 different commenters on a post? How long is that gonna take to load?

Fuhgetaboutit.

Hart — Seems like it would be easier to have people claiming false identities that way. Not that it’s a big issue, necessarily, but it’s easier to use someone’s email address than it is to use their computer :)

I did a spyware clean up this morning, and it seemed that all that is being deleted are recognizeable cookies now. I’d much prefer a gravatar based on my email address in your comments – then a script reading a cookie on my computer and figuring out mybloglog account and avatar over there. *shrugs*