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Cross-pollination

Categories: Rants

Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 @ 23:09

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I had this idea yesterday.. since I don’t really have a way to know who is reading this blog regularly and/or subscribed to my Atom (or RSS) feed:

web server logs are not that useful
I’m guessing a few people are reading this on a planet site
some people have no idea what an Atom feed or a planet is

.. please leave a comment and a link to your site.

It’s kinda like the poor man’s version of “if you like this blog, check out their blogs”… cross-pollinate (-:

Doing a quick “grep | awk.. | wc -l” for unique hosts that requested my Atom feed today (in the last ~11 hours).. I get: 56, but I suspect there are less (human) frequent readers than 56.

10 Responses to “Cross-pollination”

Charl Botha said on March 27th, 2008 at 00:08
Woef!
Jonathan said on March 27th, 2008 at 07:16
I read your blog via CLUG Park. When a blog is in CLUG park, then I don’t make a subscription, since I read everything on CLUG Park.
Russell said on March 27th, 2008 at 09:35
Moo!
Nick said on March 27th, 2008 at 18:53
Why not use feedburner? There’s a nice plugin for WordPress too. Yes, you’re still not going to know who exactly reads your blog, but you’ll get some nice stats.
joe said on March 27th, 2008 at 19:37
Hey Nick

I often get XML validation errors from Feedburner feeds. I don’t like hosted services in general. I like to have everything on my server, just the way I like it.
Ian said on March 27th, 2008 at 22:45
Trying to know the unknowable I see…
tumbleweed said on March 28th, 2008 at 10:53
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Daniel said on March 30th, 2008 at 17:52
I have clug park planet added to google reader and get it that way. ciao
FeistyFemale said on April 1st, 2008 at 09:04
Maybe mybloglog.com would be a little helpful – at least you can see which other bloggers are reading your blog.
Francois Botha said on April 23rd, 2008 at 19:50
miaouw!