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1. Top Blogs On Google Reader Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

   [...] Robert Scoble posts subscriber numbers based on the TechMeme Leaderboard rankings. Someone should aggregate all of this [...]

2. Fred Oliveira Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

   Couldn’t find the number on Google Reader itself (how do you get those, Robert?), but Feedburner reports 2,445 readers from Google Reader for my blog.

3. Robert Scoble Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

   Hmmm, that’s interesting. Google Reader is reporting that 524 come to it for your feed.

   You open Google Reader. Click “Add Subscription.” Search for your name. It shows you how many subscribers you have.

4. Fred Oliveira Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

   Found it. Weird indeed - with trailing slash (524) + without (419) amounts to almost 1,000 but feedburner still reports Google feedfetcher grabbing it 2.4x that.

5. gwhiz Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

   Kind of a bummer Matt & co took off the feed stats on WordPress.com hosted blogs. Ah well. Whopping 36 take the gWHIZ blog via Google Reader and another 26 via Feedburner. The 2,000 or so who come by the site each day… are getting here by tags and solid SEM methods. (search on “leopard release date” at Google… numero uno just a second ago)

6. Louis Gray Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

   Ouch. Good to know I’m not in the “some of your favorites” category. :-)

   I’m only in the 20s. Good thing I have a day job.

7. allen stern Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

   fyi - due to technical issues - i produce two feeds - the one techmeme uses is the lesser of the two - so that’s why CN numbers may appear smaller than they actually are. I gotta get this feed issue fixed :)

8. Gabe Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

   Very handy. Thanks Robert. I made up a smaller list a few hours ago and emailed it to a few people…TC posted about the same time you did in fact.

   The different capitalizations and punctuations make this very error prone, but it’s still great to finally have some news subscriber data.

9. Stowe Boyd Says:
   October 14th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

   You reported that I had 1,057 on Twitter earlier today (which didn’t make it into your favorites list), but Feedburner says 1,204 from Google Feedfetch. Note: 11,880 altogether according to Feedburner.

10. Seth E Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    My blog says “Unknown”. So, the way I see it, it’s either 0 or 100,000,000 (and, of course, I’m leaning towards the latter). And, although I’m a tech person, I have to admit to not always “getting” feedburner’s counting system (subscriber vs. live hits etc).

11. louisgray.com: A-List Ranks Google Reader Feeds Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    In Absence of Google Innovation A-List Ranks Feeds

    While the A-List titans likely enjoyed putting the numbers together, it’s a mockery that they’re left doing this independently when Google obviously has enough resources to deliver the data.

12. Mike McBride Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Google Reader reports 177, Feedburner 192, I’m attributing that to the fact that Feedburner reports all of Google’s properties, including people who might have the feed showing on their iGoogle page, not just the one’s in Reader, while I assume Reader’s numbers are just from Reader users.

    I base this on nothing more than a guess.. :)

13. Dharmesh Shah Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

    For OnStartups.com (my startup blog), Google Reader reports 2,135 subscribers.

    My actual total subscribers as reported by FeedBurner is 7,319.

14. tim finin Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    One of our blogs on UMBC’s new academic programs on games, animation and interactive media [1] shows “unknown subscribers” for the count. Well, I know it has at least *one*. Is there a threshold on the number of subscribers?

    [1] http://gaim.umbc.edu/news/

15. Check Your Subscribers on Google Reader | Library Stuff Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    [...] (via) [...]

16. Top Business Blogs - Mediablitz 2.0-- bub.blicio.us Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    [...] TechCrunch and Robert Scoble run the top blogs according to Google [...]

17. I thought they said the A-List wasn’t important; or didn’t exist | WinExtra Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    [...] and came up with yet another Top 100 using Google Reader data. Not to be out done apparently Robert Scoble also got into the number crunching and came up with his variation of the Top 100 [...]

18. Dawn D. Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    IMO, Robert, this isn’t relevant to mainstream readers and is reflective of technical audiences, for the most part.

    I don’t use a reader at all and I’ve asked all my friends and my kids and they don’t either.

    I have the sites I visit regularly saved as organized favorites using the Yahoo tab feature. One click to a particular folder and they all open up.

    I’ve tried the Google reader, but I’d rather go directly to the website.

    By this, it looks like newspapers have a small percentage of the traffic that places like TechCrunch and Digg get. I don’t believe it. Again, I think it’s skewed to favor technical sites because of the techie people who read them.

    My favorite news sites I don’t even have in my Yahoo tabs system. I look them up in the url address field by opening the dropdown and clicking on the one I want to visit. You techie folks probably think I’m crazy, but I bet the majority of the public does the same.

19. A-List Google Reader Back-Slapping Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    [...] Arrington and Robert Scoble jumped on the opportunity to create yet another Top “Blah Blah Blah” list of [...]

20. /Message Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    What, More Rankings?

    Arrington and Scoble are amassing lists (manually, of all things) of various blogs subscribers at Google Reader. I am (momentarily) at 43. Rubel points out (via Twitter) that as more stats of the old media crowd pour in, the ‘pee

21. Sam Harrelson » Narcissus Called… He Wants His Blogosphere Back Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    [...] on the heels of the Techmeme Leaderboard, the newest offenders are Scoble and TechCrunch: So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader [...]

22. Jeremy Toeman Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    I think I have about 7 readers. I sure better work on that…

23. Mathew Ingram Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Those numbers are pretty whack. You’ve got 18 through Google Reader, but Feedburner says that I’ve got almost 500 through Google Reader and iGoogle. And Feedburner says 1,600.

24. TheWebpreneur.com - Everything web and business. By Nick O'Neill » Google Can’t Count Right Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    [...] Scoble has posted about the number of Google subscribers each of the Techmeme leaderboard blogs have. For some reason [...]

25. Leon Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:54 pm

    Nice stats. Lifehack.org has 8,625 + 4,423 (feedburner) = 13,048 readers on Google Reader. Really happy to see how blogs on the list could compete with major medias.

26. Craig Ritchie Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    Is anyone creating the standard for measuring this yet?

27. Dave Rutledge Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Hmm…I guess it may trigger some debate over what qualifies as a blog, but over at Woot, it looks like we’re ending up somewhere around 14k, counting the various main site ones and wine, but apparently without numbers yet for shirt and sellout.

28. Sarah Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    Out of my 532 subscribers, I only have 52 readers subscribed to my feed via Google Reader, but I have 174 according to Feedburner (so does that mean 122 people have me on iGoogle?) Weird, I thought it would be the other way around.

29. Lee Odden Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    toprankblog, aka, “Online Marketing Blog” has 1,952 subscribers according to Google Reader but Feedburner reports 3,613.

30. Tips on your Google Reader subscriber numbers Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    [...] numbers for a blog when you search to add a new feed. It didn’t take long for different folks to start collecting subscriber numbers for different blogs. I haven’t asked the Reader team [...]

31. Top SEO Blogs on Google Reader Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    [...] reported on Techcrunch, Scobelizer, Problogger and others, you can now see (albeit maybe not 100% accurately) how many Google Reader [...]

32. Joel Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    Doesn’t this basically tell us what blogs are popular with Google Reader users? How that indictitive of anything?

33. adam Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    Damn.. My blog isn’t in the Google Reader favorites.. Then again, I only have like 4 RSS subscribers.

    -A

34. Rafe Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Do we even know if these numbers from the Google RSS subscribe function are live? I’m seeing a huge discrepancy between what Google is reporting and what Feedburner is reporting for Google RSS. Google is massively under-reporting for me, it looks like. At least that’s what I prefer to believe.

    I wonder how variable the Google Reader market share is from blog to blog.

35. Google Top Blogs Graphed by Rank « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog Says:
    October 14th, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    [...] And of course Scoble jumped on this meme as well. [...]

36. TechCrunch en français » La liste des blogs les plus populaires sur Google reader Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:26 am

    [...] a jour: Billet de Robert Scoble à lire sur le nombre d’abonnés avec Google Reader comparé au classement [...]

37. Udi Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    One important thing to remember about all of this is that certain feeds are part of the GR feed bundles. They will naturally have highly inflated subscriber counts. This leaderboard exercise is a waste of time, sorry.

    http://breasy.com/blog/2007/10/15/rss-is-still-in-its-infancy-and-now-theres-proof/

38. Danny Sullivan Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:59 am

    Mike, it’s not a guess. Feedburner uses the Google Feedfetcher figure, which itself is the combination of iGoogle + Google Reader subscribers. That’s why people are seeing Google Reader figures coming in lower. http://searchengineland.com/071015-033645.php explains this more, including how to get iGoogle reader figures.

39. The fav.or.it Blog » Google Reader Stats shows accessibility issues Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:17 am

    [...] you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over the weekend Scoble and TechCrunch discovered that they could find out numbers of readers for any blog according to [...]

40. noah kagan Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:40 am

    I didn’t realize I was a favorite. Tear drop:) Thanks Robert!

41. Andy Beard Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:52 am

    If I aggregate my feeds I am up to 922 on Andybeard.eu

42. The Secret Statistics In Split RSS Feeds - Google Reader | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 2:49 am

    [...] up, for those counting stats such as Darren Rowse, Robert Scoble and Techcrunch here are my [...]

43. mickmel Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 3:51 am

    My main feed (Google Earth Hacks) is showing 92,592 in Reader. FeedBurner is showing a total of 94,080, so that’s about right. Being a site about a Google product, I’ve long suspected that the vast majority were using Reader and/or iGoogle.

44. LOLCATZ Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:17 am

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45. david lee king Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:49 am

    Wild - here are my subscriber numbers. Interesting how the numbers are so off from each other (ie., bloglines via bloglines vs feedburner):

    Bloglines:
    533 (via search)
    173
    190
    531 (looking at the individual subscription)

    Feedburner:
    2141
    735 (bloglines)
    661 (Google Feedfetcher)

    Google Reader:
    478
    478 (this shows twice for some reason)

46. Mark de Kock Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:52 am

    I have 136 feedreaders on my stream @ http://www.match2knowledge.nl

47. Mihai Parparita Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 6:31 am

    We’ve now posted on the Reader blog with more details about this:

    http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/10/subscriber-stats-summed-up.html

    The post mentions that the counts were slightly off until this morning, so keep that in mind when looking at lists that may be using older numbers.

    Mihai Parparita
    Google Reader Engineer

48. Todd Defren Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 6:32 am

    Interesting exercise, thanks for the tips…

    I got 260 via Google Reader… 1,111 via Feedburner… but I am now just confused by Danny Sullivan’s post (mentioned above: http://tinyurl.com/2lcdcl), so I think I’ll just forget about subscriber #s and go get some work done.

49. Easton Ellsworth Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 6:42 am

    204 for BusinessBlogWire, out of about 650 FeedBurner subs. I’d guess that the Know More Media network has maybe 5,000-7,000 Google Reader subcribers (around 20,000 FeedBurner subs total).

50. Frustrated Hubby Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Interesting news. Now, learning how to monitize that information is something else.

51. BBC Most Popular? « PurpleFloyd’s Blog Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 8:04 am

    [...] updates however suggest the early figures may have been inaccurate and certainly a more recent visit to [...]

52. Anne Truitt Zelenka » A World of Information Possibility: There’s No Right Way Through It Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 8:06 am

    [...] It’s so obvious that we’re overwhelmed by information. There’s just too much of it and most of it is garbage, especially now that anyone can post her thoughts on the Internet. Fortunately, we have ways of telling what’s important and who’s an authority… like by looking at who has the most subscriber numbers. [...]

53. David Bradley Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 8:09 am

    I couldn’t get the Google reader values for Sciencebase but Feedburner reported about 2600 overall last time I looked, and Odiogo stats just in show I’ve got 1000+ podcast subscribers on top of that ;-)

    db

54. Hi5 Codes Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 8:37 am

    Being a webmaster myself, - I really don’t like Google Reader. I like visitors coming to my own page for the content…

55. Top Blogs According to Google Reader-- bub.blicio.us Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:28 am

    [...] developed a list of the top blogs according to the numbers, which appeared on TechCrunch. Robert Scoble also compiled a list, although he has recently updated his post saying that it will get a refresh [...]

56. pchere Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 10:58 am

    Google reader was reporting 2321 yesterday for quickonlinetips.com and after the update is reporting 6117, which is fairly accurate by Feedburner’s Google feedfetcher counts also.

57. Google Reader Stats are Bullshit (With Proof) Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:00 am

    [...] see Squash, Problogger, The Webpreneur, TimBray, Sam Harrelson, MarketingPilgrim, DataMining, Scoble, Stowe Boyd, Louis Gray, WinExtra, Technology Evangelist, Lee Odden, Matt Cutts, Search Engine [...]

58. mickmel Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    Hi5 Codes — You’re being very short-sighted. If used properly, a good RSS feed will bring MORE visitors to your site. For example, I follow about 250 feeds and keep up with them every day. There is NO WAY I’d visit all 250 sites each day, but I happily click-through when I find a good item (such as the one we’re on right now).

    If your site found its way into my feedreader, I’d see ALL of your new content every day. Otherwise, I might visit your site once every x days, when I happen to think of it.

59. Online Advertising: Adding up RSS subscribers doesn’t add up  »TechAddress Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    [...] Robert Scoble,TechCrunch proprietor Michael Arrington, and others along with many of their followers whiled away [...]

60. Google Reader Stats Still Pretty Useless Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    [...] you look at Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble’s posts where are they are fruitlessly frittering away at trying to track the nuances of these [...]

61. Jay Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    Hey Robert - I commented over at TC but thought it couldn’t hurt to mention it here as well. My blog ‘Dumb Little Man’ has a Google Reader subscriber count just north of 53K.

    Jay

62. Steph Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    I find three different entries and two different numbers for my blog. Add them? take the biggest? Confusing.

    See screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/bunny/1576284018/

63. Denis au fil du web » Top des blogs de chez nous à la moulinette Google Reader Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    [...] des blogs francophones du Royaume voilà une source bien utile pour s’adonner au passe-temps du jour, à savoir déterminer qui a le plus de lecteurs dans Google Reader. Ca n’apprend rien, si ce [...]

64. smsfreaks Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    I got 51 via Google Reader..but i have no idea about Feedburner…

65. M Freitas Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Hmmm… With updated numbers we 2,306 on http://www.geekzone.co.nz...

66. Jeff Atwood Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    Ain’t there no love in the ‘hood for poor old Coding Horror? Et tu, Scoble!

    I have 32,379 subscribers by this metric, which means I am now officially more important than the front page of the New York Times!

    TAKE THAT GRAY LADY!

67. Dibs.net Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    [...] Robert Scoble,TechCrunch proprietor Michael Arrington, and others along with many of their followers whiled away [...]

68. 2.0weblogs.net/work Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Cool, i just finally broke down and set up Google reader, i was using a mac-based system, but the ubiquity of google is equity for everybody… i kind of sound like a sales rep, yikes! Anyway, it is a nice service, i just wish it looked nicer instead of the baby blue nightmare scheme.

    -Americo
    http://ThunkDifferent.com

69. Take out the garbage and pay attention to the river of news | BoldlyGoing.com Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:04 pm

    [...] Oh, and since my subscriber numbers are pretty much non-existent, my words evidently fall into the garbage heap as well. Not sure how one would ever get off the heap if what they post is all crap and no one is ever to subscribe to them, and their numbers never grow to the Scobleizer level. [...]

70. Samuel Goh Kim Eng Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    It’s my prayer that bloggers are not in the number game
    Just for the sake of being famous, well known and getting fame
    What else do we have but advanced computer technology to really blame
    For getting all bloggers everywhere all rather worked up with the numbering flame
    (C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng Tue. 16th Oct. 2007
    http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com

71. links for 2007-10-16 « Simply… A User Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    [...] How many Google Reader subscribers do you have? « Scobleizer (tags: rss blogs lists google *) [...]

72. CrunchNotes » Google Reader Stats Bullshit? Nope Says:
    October 15th, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    [...] after Scoble and I wrote about Google Reader stats yesterday, all hell broke loose - all the complainers rallied [...]

73. blognation Germany » Blog Archive » The 50 Most Popular Technology Blogs From Germany According To Google Says:
    October 16th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    [...] of actual subscribers, but compared to popular international blogs (e.g. see Robert Scoble’s list) the German ecosystem of blogs and readers is a rather smallish village. No fat head and a long [...]

74. The Cork Board » Blog Archive » Is Vinography truly king in terms of subscribers? Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 11:45 am

    [...] Reader subscribers that is. This week, the online world has been buzzing about a new feature that Google quietly rolled out for its Google Reader [...]

75. Google Reader Subscribers « Ian Skerrett Says:
    October 18th, 2007 at 5:56 am

    [...] Reader Subscribers Google has just released a feature in Google Reader that allows you to see how many people have subscribed to a feed. I thought it would be interesting to check out some the RSS feeds at eclipse.org. As a reminder, [...]

76. The power of aggregated attention data » Justin Henry's green galoshes Says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 11:03 am

    [...] But the real power of standardized, published attention data lies in it’s aggregation. That attention data can provide much richer traffic and consumption statistics than simple feed counts alone. It provides a mechanism for content providers to better see who is actually reading their content, as opposed to just subscription numbers. [...]

77. www.best-practice-business.de/blog » Die meistabonnierten deutschen blogfeeds Says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 11:13 am

    [...] ihn bei Google abonniert haben. Jens hat sich bei seinem Ranking von “Techcrunch”, “Scobleizer” und “blognation germany” inspirieren [...]

78. freewebhitscounter » Blog Archive » Tips on your Google Reader subscriber numbers Says:
    October 20th, 2007 at 6:31 am

    [...] numbers for a blog when you search to add a new feed. It didn’t take long for different folks to start collecting subscriber numbers for different blogs. I haven’t asked the Reader team about [...]

79. Pfuy » Die meistabonnierten deutschen blogfeeds Says:
    October 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    [...] ihn bei Google abonniert haben. Jens hat sich bei seinem Ranking von “Techcrunch”, “Scobleizer” und “blognation germany” inspirieren [...]

80. Tips on your Google Reader subscriber numbers | MT-Soft Website Development Says:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    [...] numbers for a blog when you search to add a new feed. It didn’t take long for different folks to start collecting subscriber numbers for different blogs. I haven’t asked the Reader team [...]

81. RSS 101 Tutorial Part 4 | Internet Marketing and SEO by TrafficBoosterProV2.com Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 9:25 am

    [...] Lessons Learned and S.. Craig Killick Web Marketing : Blog Archive : A beginners guide to RSS fo.. Scobleizer CalorieLab Calorie Counter News » Nibbles: Helping obese kids, going.. Leveraging All Search [...]

82. Twitter and Follow | Knowledge Management « LawyerKM :: Knowledge Management & Technology for Lawyers and Law Firms Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am

    [...] like following him as a Google Reader friend because he essentially vets content for me. Well, not directly, but you get the idea: I read [...]

83. Web 2.0 News » Subscriber Stats, Summed Up Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 am

    [...] been a lot of discussion this weekend about the subscriber counts that have recently appeared in Reader’s [...]

84. ersin Says:
    May 6th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Interesting news. Now, learning how to monitize that information is something else.

85. güvenlik Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 4:29 am

    Cool, i just finally broke down and set up Google reader, i was using a mac-based system, but the ubiquity of google is equity for everybody…

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