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Just in case you were pining for yet another Top Blogs list – Bloglines today announced their one the Bloglines Top 1000 (they used to have a Top 200). They report that at the heart of the metric is how many ‘active’ subscribers that a blog has (with some other ...more

A few hours back when the Feedburner RSS counter chicklet that thousands of blogs use to show their subscriber numbers updated bloggers everywhere scratched their heads in wonder. I’ve had about 10 emails in the last couple of hours from many asking if I’d noticed the difference – a massive ...more

Since Google Reader started showing how many people subscribe with its service to different RSS feeds there’s been a lot of talk and analysis about how many subscribers different blogs and sites have. However one element hasn’t been talked about that much – the fact that many blogs have multiple ...more

Google Reader have just started showing how many readers are subscribing to an RSS feed in a similar way to the way that Bloglines have been showing subscriber numbers for years now. The subscriber numbers can be seen simply by doing a search for a blog’s name after clicking the ...more

It looks like Google is rolling out suggested prepackaged ‘bundles’ (or is this something that they’re just promoting afresh? – update – seems it is an old feature according to commenters below) of RSS feeds for it’s users to subscribe to. In categories like news, technology, video, cars and photography ...more

I’ve just started a new weekly poll over in the sidebar. This week we’re going to full up the Great Feed Debate that we ran on the blog this week and are asking: Do You Use Full or Partial Feeds on Your Blogs? (or do you offer your readers a ...more

A leaked video from Google on Google Reader reveals some fascinating hints at where the reader is headed according to Blog Scoped. Some of the highlights: Google will work on a standard for feed publishers to tell aggegrators about changes in the feed The Reader team is going to integrate ...more

This week I want to try something a little different and attempt a debate here at ProBlogger. The idea is simple – I’ve chosen two people who I think have experience around a debated blogging topic to argue the case for either side of it. These two opinions will act ...more

Why does my Feedburner subscriber count fluctuate so much? Are people unsubscribing and subscribing as much as my Feedburner counter says? I notice your Feedburner counter goes up and down each day – why? My RSS Subscriber Counter Goes Down Every Weekend – Why? Over the last week I’ve been ...more