The title of this post is definitely tongue-in-cheek. A joke, really. Seriously, though, another statistic that many people find very important is the number of people who subscribe to their blog’s feed. More than just about any other measure, the number of subscribers to a blog’s feed gives a sense of how “interesting” or worthwhile others find what you have to say. I use Bloglines for my feed aggregator so I pay attention to that service more than anything else. At the moment I have a grand total of 54 subscribers in Bloglines. That’s not a large number, but I don’t care. I am very happy that there are that many people who find this blog interesting enough to subscribe to its feed.

In addition to Blogline subscribers, I also have seven people who subscribe to this blog via email updates.

One other way I know of to judge “interestingness” of this blog is via Feedburner. Feedburner counts subscribers in a different way than Bloglines. Its count is “based on an approximation of how many times [my blog's] feed has been requested in a 24-hour period.” I created a Feedburner feed on June 27. Since that time, the average number of subscribers according to Feedburner’s calculation is six. The highest number during that time has been seventeen and the lowest has been zero.

So…There you have it: some measures that help me figure out how many people really, really like me (well, this blog, to be precise). Thank you, Sally Field.