Stickis and BlogRovR: the conversation is everywhere

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 […]

Today’s news that the New York Times was going to stop charging for Times Select left me sad and pondering why I felt that way.
The discussion of whether software, music, services, etc, ought to be free and the implications of that have been much discussed (hilariously by Elton John in the Sun) and I’m not […]

The weather has gotten too awesome to not be spending more time outdoors!
Jean and I will be “hosting” a brown-bag get-together on South Park, Tuesday, May 15th, 12:30 to 1:30.
We’ll bring sodas and a couple of blankets to sit on. Let’s converge on the 2nd street side of the park.
Get to know your fellow […]

Half day after our launch and I want to get down some of the impressions from what we’ve seen.
First, some very nicely done press by Nick Gonzalez at Techcrunch, and also by Rafe Needleman at Webware. Interestingly, they focus on slightly different ways of looking at what we do, but they’re both quite […]

In this article Malcom Gladwell writes on whether or not blogging is a derivative medium, pigyybacking on the coattails and requiring traditional media. Chris Anderson of Long-Tail fame defends the (I think rather tenuous) position that it isn’t.

Regardless of which side of this polemic one […]