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/Message is hovering around 21,990 at Technorati. All quiet on the Western Blog.
What I don't understand is why all the RSS subscribers at Get Real haven't signed up here. Still only 230 or so have made the switch, even though there is nothing coming out of the Get Real spigot.
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Why don't you ask the guys at Corante set up a redirect on the old feed address to your current one?
Or am I having a blonde moment?
Posted by: Gary Turner | February 03, 2006 at 05:32 AM
Inertia's a powerful force. Took me a couple of weeks to make the switch. That and a certain portion of subscribers are inactive users or double readers.
Case in point - me. I used Bloglines for the longest time and read Get Real there. Then I switched to NetNewsWire and subscribed to Get Real there. I just updated my NetNewsWire account, but I haven't got back to update my Bloglines account, and likely never will.
I suspect a certain portion of subscription 'ramp-up' in everyone's blog is caused by people changing readers.
Posted by: Greg Yardley | February 03, 2006 at 07:18 AM
I'm not a subscriber to your blog. First time here in fact. However, I have many blogs in my blogroll/feedlist/newsreader that I am technically subscribed to that I never read. Many have moved on and I just never bothered to update them. With 100's of feeds in my list, there are several I never bother to open even though it presumably grabs the info every time I update my feedlist.
My uneducated guess is that there are several people who subscribed at one time or another who have just let the feed linger.
Posted by: chris sivori | February 03, 2006 at 07:52 AM
When I subscribe to a feed at work, I rarely read it. See something new, subscribe to it, don't read it because I have a million other things to do. It's like a forgotten book. The same thing is probably happening here. It'll take time to get them to move.
It has been only a couple of weeks already. Most of us lower forms who don't have blogs read by the teeming masses have to work at getting traffic, even though our content may be just as good. Your built in audience will come.
KB -- Download the Michelle Malkin "Bastards of the Blogs" card
Posted by: King Bastard | February 05, 2006 at 10:07 PM
Sorry to post on an unrelated post (indeed, I hope this is not approved for publication) - but I learned of cocomment via your site as I was browsing, and wondered if you would send an invite my way?
Posted by: Murky | February 11, 2006 at 12:03 PM