It was a post at JohnTP.com that caught my attention, and it made me wonder about this site. Even though I've never sought any fame or fortune from this site (he lied), it's never been about the metrics (he lied again). Throwing up occasional outbursts of creativity is all MacStansbury.com stood for now. The days of trying to gain readers and get those mad blog hits was - and is - completely over.

So it stunned me to see this from Friday:

50 subscribers

Yeah, it's not a lot, but it's more than 0, which is what I figured I'd always have. I should point out that like my stance on other people advertising here, I have a strict no-advertising on other people's property rule, as well. And by "advertising," I mean "anything that would cost me money." This comes from my steadfast independence, my maverick nature, and the fact that my bank account could best be described as "empty."

I'm pretty sure it's not spybots and relatives, either. There appears to be a genuine audience for this site, even though I really - really - have a hard time figuring out what it's about my own self. Imagine being on this page and trying to figure out what to stick in there. I really have no idea anymore. I'm eclectic, unfocused, and generally pedantic.

And I have one of them word-a-day calendars, apparently.

You can watch the ebb and flow of the subscriptions on the syndication page, or you can subscribe and see how awesome it is to have stuff given to you, every day, for free.

Note: FeedBurner calculates the links from day to day by looking at how many folks downloaded your feed in a given day. This changes from day to day, so you could have 10 one day, then 170 the next. This generally swings in the same way readership swings, so weekends will have low totals, while weekdays have lots of readers, peaking on Tuesday. This would make Tuesday the day you are most likely to see all the people who are genuinely reading your FeedBurner RSS feed.

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lastmod: '2006-10-17T07:30:57.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
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