I started playing with Feedburner over the weekend which, as often happens when you’ve got a website with loads of legacy redirects all over the place, kinda screwed things up a bit. It should be sorted now. Let me know if you don’t get this post in your reader (assuming you are aware you haven’t got it, but if you’re reading this then you’ll know if you did or not.)
Finally getting on the Feedburner bandwagon has revealed some fascinating numbers for me. I’d generally assumed I had about 100 readers, give or take. Feedburner’s stats, after two days, tell me there are 193 of you reading this via RSS, which is rather a lot. The headline figures are 55 through Google Reader, 55 through Bloglines, 27 through LiveJournal and the rest scattered amongst a variety of other readers. And of course this doesn’t include those who don’t use RSS. I wonder if they’re in the minority? That’d be a turnup considering how hard it was to explain exactly what RSS is a few years ago.
Popped up okay in mine, which fwiw, is the Firefox ticker plug-in.
Add me to the list who check the site manually every day.
Oh, and hi!
Bloglines doesn’t like the redirect. Sorry.
Cheers for the heads up on Feedburner. I’ve converted my site over too now. Mmmm… stats…
Bloglines has now sprung back into life. Hurrah!
I used to be one of the bookmark-clicking crowd but in a fit of organisation have just subscribed to the Pete Pipe. One puzzling thing is that the CiB feed includes comment links (“[No/13456] comment[s]“), which is useful, while the others don’t.
That’ll be because my partner in CiB crime likes to play with such things while I’m a keep it simple kinda guy. I’m half sold on the notion though so wait and see.
(This is also why CiB has Feedburner permalinks which I’m on record as thinking are silly.)