So, who's reading this then? Something I've been wondering about for a while, and which, in redesigning this, has come to the fore is 'how do I know who's subscribing to this weblog through rss'?
Searching around on this I came upon Tim Bray's subscriber redux which explores the same issue and points to the Radio solution which, um, doesn't seem to work. Tim suggests that blogrolling tools like technorati can give a guide to who might be subscribed but I'm not sure about that either, I have about 30 links and subscribe to 70+ feeds... should update my links perhaps but I tend to blogroll people I've read for a while (if I can remember) whereas I'll subscribe (and see how it goes) with anyone I find interesting. It's a good essay by Tim and the Google link cosmos for it is pretty interesting too... I haven't had the time to go through everything but it doesn't really look like there's owt out there!
Blogstreet is pretty funky but doesn't seem to have any answers here... Greg Reinacker has some ideas regarding redirecting & giving user ids but I'm still just as lost!
I reckon it's as important to know who's reading your rss (should they choose to tell you) as it is to know what referrers are coming your way... for me that (plus my news aggregator) has been my no. 1 source of relevant sites which I want to subscribe to... and besides:
"if they don’t do it, when Microsoft ships their blogging tool and aggregator built-in to Office or IE or something, you can damn well bet that they’ll have the subscriber-tracking stuff there on day one"
...and I'm just starting to enjoy the freedom!!!
12:48:16 PM 
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