Econoblogs: The RSS Ranking
Chris Masse emails with a good point, apropos Tyler Cowen's blogonomics talk: that if you're going to measure blog popularity, there are many ways of doing so. Aaron Schiff uses Technorati rankings; Brian Gongol uses public traffic logs; Alexa uses a downloadable toolbar. But there's another interesting metric: feed subscribers. That number isn't the easiest thing to pin down, but Google Reader makes public the number of subscribers to any given feed, and, by that metric, Marginal Revolution is insanely popular.
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