Well, I've learned something today. One of the reasons more people don't have RSS feeds on their sidebar is that they take a long time to load. Maybe I'll try the non javascript alternates if things don't speed up.

I've changed the code a tiny bit to make sure all feeds are limited to 3 items. I may have to remove Joi Ito, the xml link I got from his blog seems to have whole posts - and pictures which go a long way across the text of my blog! Maybe he or someone has an alternative feed.

I could move all the feeds to the bottom of my sidebar, so the rest of the sidebar would be visible while waiting for them to load. I think they're kind of cool, so I'll try other measures first.