Richard MacManus on changes in Bloglines subsriptions in 3 months:
Remember my post 3 months ago that analysed Bloglines subscriber stats? Well I thought I’d review the numbers. You can blame Seb Paquet for this ;-) Why? Because he’s just posted something on his weblog for the first time in over 3 months, which got me thinking about how his time away from blogging affected his stats. It turns out his Bloglines subscriber numbers have increased by 25% over the last 3 months, despite him not posting a single new entry! A similar story for Mark Pilgrim, who has all but turned his back on blogging – yet his stats are up 31%.
My subscriptions are 15% higher (compare with Richard’s own 78% growth and check absolute numbers as well)… Read the rest for more statistics and discussion…
My two cents:
1. As I wrote before, I’m a bit scared about my own high numbers. Mainly because I can’t return the favour (with my 200+ subscriptions I’m on the edge of what I can handle), so it makes me feel blogging more like broadcasting than a conversation, which I want it to be.
2. I keep wondering how many “dead” subscriptions are there? In a world of news aggregators Bloglines is similar to Blogger in the world of blogging – free, easy to try introduction platform that many play with and then decide that it’s not for them or move somewhere else. So I wonder how many abandoned Bloglines subscriptions are there…
Btw, if you are not reading Richard’s blog you should give it a try (only be prepared for long, well-researched and well-crafted posts :)
Tags: blog conversations, blog readingArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/10/14.html#a1385; comments are here.
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