Checking my Google Reader page this evening I noticed all of a sudden I have 18 readers for my main RSS feed here at Rubenerd.com, and 34 readers for the old URL bringing the total to 52! I do admit I started blogging because I enjoy writing about my weird and disparate interests first and foremost, but it’s another world of good feeling knowing a few of you are interested in some of it too.
<Cheesyness> So I just wanted to get all soppy for a second and send out a thank you and a hug to all of you for thinking my material here was worthwhile enough to warrant some of the time from your hectic electronic lives. Its a fulfilling feeling that has helped a socially awkward, introverted guy like me in ways you can’t imagine. </cheesyness>
I’ll try my best to minimise the number of typos and grammar mistakes :). I chose the above photo from my Flickr account because it looked all dramatic and the primary colour is similar to uncooked grilled cheese sandwiches.
Peace, health and happiness,
~ Ruben
Are they new readers or just people who have switched version of NetNewsWire, the new version uses google reader to sync. The old version used Newsgator, the Newsgator sync stopped working last night.
Out of curiosity how do you use Google Reader to see how many people are subscribed to your rss feeds?
@Robbie
If people were merely moving from another aggregator, I wouldn’t have expected for my server stats package to have detected as much of a sustained increase in hits. As far as it would be concerned, the traffic would have been similar even if the source was different.
@Clark
If you click Feed Details in the upper right-hand corner of the feed you’re reading it’ll give you the number of people subscribed.