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Bloglines Update

There's been a lot of discussion (see TechCrunch, What I Learned Today, and Law.Librarians, among others) about Bloglines and the problems they've been having. I noticed today that Bloglines has returned to the status quo ante -- RSS4Lib's subscriber numbers,...

Posted by Ken Varnum on October 21, 2008 9:08 AM

Did Bloglines Purge Its Subscription Rolls?

I just noticed that the number of subscribers at Bloglines recently fell sharply. (I use RSS4Lib Feedstats tool to track my blog's readership via RSS.) On September 27, Bloglines was reporting a total of 872 subscribers to the RSS and...

Posted by Ken Varnum on October 6, 2008 12:10 PM

Estimate Your Blog's Feed Subscriber Base

Figuring out how much bang you're getting for your blogging effort is not as simple as it first seems. While it's relatively straightforward to calculate readership of static Web pages on your server, making a similar estimate of syndicated content...

Posted by Ken Varnum on June 6, 2008 10:29 AM

The Reader Wars

How do you read your RSS feeds? Chances are, you use either Bloglines or Google Reader, the two market leaders. A recent report, 'Google Reader Slowly Closing on Bloglines' by Heather Hopkins of Hitwise shows how the gap is closing:...

Posted by Ken Varnum on May 22, 2008 10:55 AM

RSS4Lib Survey Results

Thanks to the 137 of you who have taken the quick subscriber survey that I posted on November 8. Based on my best-guess estimate of my readership on this date, I had 1513 feed subscribers on November 7, the day...

Posted by Ken Varnum on November 25, 2007 2:31 PM