Scott McLeod (Dangerously Irrelevant) has opened up his second annual Education Blogosphere Survey. I think that it is interesting and useful to have information about a particular portion of the blogging community, especially one that is so information and communication intensive.
You can click the graphic to the right to participate. It’s four screens and 25 questions. It took me about fifteen minutes, but only because I couldn’t figure out how to tell how many subscribers I have. If you know how to determine that number, please comment.
You can see last year’s survey results at his The Results are In! post.
The deadline for this years participation is January 26 at 11:00pm Central, (GMT-06:00).
I’m not sure that you really can tell how many subscribers you have – unless you make them register to get the RSS feed ..
Things like bloglines let you know how many subscribe to it via bloglines, or whatever, but you can’t count those that, say, use the RSS features of IE.
David & Emma, I just did a post called Hunting for Subscriber Stats explaining a process to get at least a rough estimate of subscribers using Google Reader and Bloglines. Emma’s right though; this won’t pick up the subscribers who use IE, Outlook, or other readers. At least it’s a place to start though.
Dave, thanks so much for mentioning the survey. Much, much appreciated!
I register all my blogs in Feedburner. It will tell you how many subscribers you have…
I just did a quick check since I was curious. Google Reader shows 2149 subscribers; Bloglines shows 1279. So, you have at least 3500 subscribers. It’s probably more like 4000 with people using IE, Pageflakes, or other readers.