I've just hit a century, 100 Bloglines subscribers. I was on 79 only 4 days ago, when I posted my article about Bloglines subscriber stats. Mind you it helps when the creator of Bloglines links to you :-)
To put this into perspective, I also noticed today that Boing Boing has 8,025 Bloglines subscribers! Wow! I'd previously not seen anyone with more than 3,000. I'm still in C-List territory compared to the likes of Mark Pilgrim (who's increased by 33, to 2133, over the last 4 days).
Dear readers, can you please leave a comment if you know of other blogs that go over the 3,000 mark in Bloglines subscribers? Also I'd be interested to know if any other RSS Aggregator keeps tallies of its subscribers and makes them publically available.
PS I'm like this in my day job too - I can't help myself when it comes to web statistics. It's part of my job as a Web Producer, so I have an excuse. Also, back in the day, I was the sort of kid who created his own Top 10 lists of music... Duran Duran seemed to be number 1 a bit too often in my charts :-0
You can see where some of the inspiration for Sylvian and The System came from ;-)
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A List Apart is over the 3000 subscriber mark, and Zeldman is fast approaching it. If Bloglines made it easy to find the feed URLs I'd give those out instead.
Also, some folks publish multiple feeds which could fragment their subscriber base. I'm not sure if your calculations take this into account. Mark Pilgrim may already be above 3000 subscribers.
Posted by: Brian M. Dennis | July 22, 2004 4:31 PMRe multiple feeds, that is a good point. It seems that when you click "Add" in Bloglines and then type in the weblog URL (as opposed to the RSS file URL), it gives you a selection of feeds to choose from. eg I typed in Sam Ruby's blog URL: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/
...and it gave me 3 main RSS feeds to choose from.
In my blog's case, I have an RSS 1.0 feed that I don't publicise - but I discovered that it displays in Bloglines as an "avaliable feed". To my surprise, 2 people are subscribed to it. So I guess my count now is 100 + 2 (not that it matters a great deal, I'm just using it as an example).
I wonder if Bloglines can aggregate all the "available feeds" together and provide an aggregate Subscriber count? They already know all Sam Ruby's 3 feeds are associated with Sam Ruby, so it should be able to take an extra step and count them as one unit in the stats?
Posted by: Richard MacManus | July 22, 2004 5:27 PMSlashdot has 11849 Bloglines subscribers. You can count me as one of the 21 who added your feed since Mark linked you.
Posted by: Dan | July 22, 2004 6:40 PMArs Technica has 3152 Subscribers: http://www.arstechnica.com/
Posted by: Kayode Okeyode | July 22, 2004 8:16 PMYou can check out the list of Top Blogs at Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/topblogs) and just click on the "subscribers" link for each one to see the number of subscribers.
I believe the list is sorted in descending order based on number of subs. Slashdot is the top dog, followed by Wired News with 11,142 subs.
A quick count shows that the first 25 blogs listed in the TopBlogs page have more than 3,000 subs... although you'll also notice that Bloglines News (which is the official Bloglines blog) is the first on the list and doesn't show the number of blog subscribers.... I guess they'd rather keep that under wraps since it also gives away the number of Bloglines users. he-he!
Posted by: M | July 23, 2004 7:37 PMGood spotting M! It doesn't explicitly say so, but the Bloglines Top Blogs does seem to be ordered by number of subscribers. That would make Joel Spolsky the number 1 *individual* blogger, with 4401 Bloglines subscribers. The next best is Jeffrey Zeldman who is on 2949 as I write this.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | July 23, 2004 10:08 PM