I’ve been using Feedburner for over a year as a means to publish my blog posts as RSS feeds.

(If you’re not sure what RSS is, by the way, it’s a way to publish content over the Internet.  People can get your blog posts, podcasts, etc. automatically either by E-Mail or by something called a RSS reader.  This introduction to RSS will provide you with an overview of what it is and how to use it.)

Feedburner gives you the ability to, among other things, publicize how many people have subscribed to your blog’s RSS feed.  It’s used as social proof, often to show progress over time or to market how well your blog is doing.

I’ve publicized my feed counts at some times and hidden them at others.  Sometimes the numbers vary greatly for no apparent reason.  The numbers can be inflated by various means (e.g. having the same person subscribe to your blog multiple times).  It’s not a perfect system by any means.

At the same time, I don’t know of any better method to show what’s going on with subscriptions.  If my numbers are flawed, I imagine everyone’s are flawed.  It is what it is.

So…

I’m going to start displaying it again.  Actually, I did a few minutes ago.  Make of it what you will.

However…   it is significantly bigger than when I started out and I think that’s a decent accomplishment.

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