Horrible performance of Liferea made me migrate to Google Reader gradually. I move blogs one by one, starting at the top of the reading list. This way less interesting blogs are left languish in Liferea, which I rev up once in a few days. Like Twitter, GR shows the subscriber counts. Here's a sample distribution (for one reason or the other, I do not read heavyweights like Instapundit or Danny Choo though a reader):
| Blog | Subscribers |
|---|---|
| Small Dead Animals | 927 |
| International Liberty | 511 |
| 2DT | 436 |
| Omonomono | 225 |
| Animanachronism | 183 |
| Karmaburn | 107 |
| Chizumatic | 44 |
| Ani-nouto | 27 |
| CKS::anime | 8 |
| zaitcev.mee.nu | 6 |
| Beta-Waffle | 3 |
So:
- Conventional wisdom is that anime blogs are insignificant compared to political blogs. Not so: a dead anime blog still has 436 people clinging to it, or well within striking range of fairly well-knowin political blogs.
- Beta-Waffle has three people reading it [on Google]? Seriously? What is wrong with humanity?
UPDATE: Omo says that GR shows 45 subscribers to Beta-Waffle for him, which would be in the right ballpark. I suspect some sites may have a problem splitting a feed into Atom and RSS.