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Archive for October, 2007

More on counting subscribers

Here’s the response I left for Pete Cashmore over at Mashable regarding two of his articles, Google Reader Stats are Bullshit (With Proof), and ActiveWeave Blogrovr: Screwy FeedBurner Stats?.
Hi Pete, Marc Meyer CEO of Activeweave BlogRovR here.
Congratulations on an excellent piece on the problems with subscriber statistics from blog aggregators.
Our stats show you to have […]

Counting subscribers …

Pete Cashmore has written a dynamite post about the validity of subscriber counts from blog aggregators, and by extension from BlogRovR which deserves a considered response and an explanation of how BlogRovR approaches this task.
Stowe Boyd and others have also joined in the conversation.
The short story:

Subscriber counts from most feed aggregators can easily include people […]