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October 14, 2007

Top Blogs On Google Reader

Michael Arrington

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So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader subscribers around a particular blog. Gabe Rivera at Techmeme did a little work on excel and came up with an unofficial list of the top blogs and the number of subscribers each blog has on Google Reader. He sent the list around to people for comments - with his permission we’ve published it below.

This isn’t perfect because you have to think of the blog and then do a search for the stats; so some blogs may be left off. Also, some of these stats are aggregate numbers from different feeds for the same blog.

If you see errors or blogs that should be added, please point them out and we’ll correct them. It would also be good to round this out to a top 100 list and compare it to Technorati and TechMeme Leaderboard. Hopefully, Google will just publish this data themselves at some point.

The blog or other news site is listed on the left. Total Google Reader subscribers is listed in the second column.

 

Update: Robert Scoble posts subscriber numbers based on the TechMeme Leaderboard rankings. Someone should aggregate all of this data into a single Top 100 list.

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  1. Louis Gray

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    Google’s reticence to add features to Google Reader has been somewhat frustrating. The fact that it takes TechCrunch + Scoble + TechMeme to approximate a Top 100 list is poor, as this is something Google should deliver themselves.

    I asked for this back in March, and the team is still delinquent.
    http://www.louisgray.com/live/.....eader.html

  2. Andy Beal

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:43 pm

    These lists are great for comments. You’re going to get a ton of “you forget me” comments, so I may as well kick us off.

    You forgot MarketingPilgrim.com - Google reader shows us with 1,656 readers.

  3. Voices

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    Amazing how the content of every single blog within the Top 30 has a technology focus. Clearly RSS, feed readers and such haven’t yet reached the masses. It would be interesting to hear splits ( from Feedburner perhaps ) between RSS subscriptions versus Email subscriptions. In non-technical circles, I’d estimate that email subscriptions win by at least 2-1. Anyone else?

  4. Gabe

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    To elaborate: if I found multiple *active* feeds for the same blog, I added the subscriber counts, believing the numbers mostly to belong to nonoverlapping sets of users. E.g. two different capitalizations for TechCrunch’s feed produced the 129K total.

    I’m sure I overlooked some things. Ironically, I undercounted Techmeme by 1162 having missed one feed. (In any case most Techmeme users use the webpage…)

  5. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    I’ve removed the table from the post and put this into a zoho spreadsheet for easier editing.

  6. Chris

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    “Someone should aggregate all of this data into a single Top 100 list.”

    The leaderboard data is invalid, because it’s for references, not readers. The feedburner and google data would have to be aggregated alone, and not everybody uses feedburner.

    Inbound and outbound links are for ranking pages not popularity or readers.

  7. Chris

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    I also do not believe for a second that Techcrunch has more readers than digg or slashdot. It’s impossible. Look at the comments at Digg and Slashdot.

    Unless Techcrunch has robots other than the usual search spiders that it built itself to boost it’s own rating. I wouldn’t put it past you guys either. I know a few top alexa sites did that 2 years ago by automating toolbar hits.

  8. Louis Gray

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Chris, I think it’s possible that TechCrunch *does* have more Google Reader RSS subscribers than Digg or Slashdot. The percentage of people who read TechCrunch or Scobleizer and know about Google Reader is much higher than the common Digg or Slashdot user.

  9. Chris

    October 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    “Chris, I think it’s possible that TechCrunch *does* have more Google Reader RSS subscribers than Digg or Slashdot. The percentage of people who read TechCrunch or Scobleizer and know about Google Reader is much higher than the common Digg or Slashdot user.”

    If that’s true then it would highlight the invalidity of Google reader subscribers as an accurate metric for Tech popularity, making Arrington’s post as valid as an Alexa ranking.

  10. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    Chris - its an accurate metric for Google Reader popularity, not tech popularity.

  11. Seth Godin

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    I was stunned to see that my blog has more than 33,000… if I’m reading it right.

    I think it got left out from this list though, Mike.

  12. Robert Scoble

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    Hmmm, I wonder why our numbers don’t match. I hope I didn’t add things incorrectly. For my own numbers I think you added my old and new feed together, which over rates my audience size here.

    The BBC has the most subscribers, though, at 202,463. I think one reason is because they put an “about news feeds” link next to each of their feeds, which goes to this well-written page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3223484.stm

    Mike: it might be fun to take my numbers and put them into your spreadsheet. I wouldn’t mind if you did that. If you give me access, I could add them too.

  13. Simon Willison

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    I’ve got 895 for http://feeds.simonwillison.net/swn-everything and another 2242 for http://simon.incutio.com/syndicate/rss1.0, my old feed that redirects to the new one. I guess that gives me 3137 total.

  14. Robert Scoble

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    Seth: I added you to my list at http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/.....-you-have/

  15. Steve Rubel

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    My blog has 5k on Google but there is a second atom feed with another 2500. I am sure there are many others. The hard part is knowing which blogs to start with. Also, Bloglines and Newsgator also publish figs. Between the three of them that’s a good 80% of RSS readers. Might be neat to tally them up.

  16. Robert Scoble

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Steve Rubel: On my list I show that you have 7,676. Let me know if any numbers aren’t accurate.

  17. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Seth and Steve - added you.

  18. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    Robert - i gave you read/write permission on the sheet. have at it.

  19. JayDawg

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    Steve, Seth, Robert-

    Let me know if you’d like somebody to help you finish off.

  20. Sam

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:40 pm

    Hah. Look at that list. This should serve as a reality check for anyone who claims that Google Reader has popularized RSS and reached a broad audience.

    The #1 RSS reader for “real” people is probably still My Yahoo! (and most of those RSS consumers probably don’t even know they’re reading RSS feeds).

  21. arn

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    MacRumors.com has 16,646

  22. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    added macrumors

  23. Marshall Kirkpatrick

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    Elise Baur’s Simply Recipes, http://www.elise.com/recipes/ , has 2800+ in Google Reader, interesting in light of her total of 235k subscribers. So 20% of TC’s subscribers are using Google Reader and 1% of Elise’s are. Over at Read/WriteWeb 10% of our subscribers are using Google Reader. We’ve got just more than half of what Elise has, though.

    One thing I learned at the Blogher conference was that there are established rock stars that are totally different in different blog niches. Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, for example, is a blog that regularly gets 300-400 comments per post. I think her panel at Blogher was scheduled at the same time Barb Dybwad from Engadget and Gina from Lifehacker spoke on power tools for blogging - and I was really surprised to see their room only 1/2 full.

    Different communities have different rock stars and some of them really are as big in things like RSS subscribers as tech blogs are. So much is demographics though, too - have you looked at Alexa and compared TC and Webware, for example? Alexa says Webare is like 3X TC’s size. Probably just speaks to Firefox and RSS subscribers vs. IE users.

    My personal blog has 534 readers in Google Reader, but they are very smart and lovable readers.

  24. Louis Gray

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    If you think about News and Politics…

    Drudge Report: 2,942
    Daily Kos: 7,285
    Eschaton: 2,310
    Talking Points Memo: 2,469
    CNN: 39,229
    NYTimes: 33,159

  25. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    ok - I’ll continue to update this tonight and tomorrow but what we really need to do is create a spreadsheet wiki somewhere to keep track of this.

  26. Stowe Boyd

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    I know I am down there somewhere, at 1,027 at Google Reader, although Feedburner has Google feeds at 1200ish.

  27. Stowe Boyd

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

    Two feeds 1027+226 = 1253

  28. Allen Stern

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

    #22 marshall - Webware appears larger in Alexa because Webware falls under the cnet.com umbrella - check the top link and you will see :)

    #24 mike - I don’t think there is any reason to keep track of it - it changes day by day so it would be a nightmare to manage and subscriber numbers are still hits of ‘95.

  29. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    added /message

  30. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    If anyone out there wants to help update the sheet, ping me and I’ll add you.

  31. DJ

    October 14th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

    Uncrate has 5,461
    Neatorama has 2,288
    43 Folders has 9,231
    Daring Fireball has 10,878

  32. Louis Gray

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    The Apple Blog has 2,959.

  33. Matthew Schmidt

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    I’d like to throw DZone.com’s main feed in there. We have roughly 2150 Google readers according to the search in Google Reader. Thanks!

  34. Scott Karp

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    Mike,

    The numbers in the Google Reader search seem to be off by a pretty significant amount.

    For Publishing 2.0, Feedburner says 2,517 subscribers via Google Reader, but a search in Google Reader only shows 1,270.

    I think Allen Stern is right that this data is like counting server “hits” back in the 90’s. A more interesting (probably impossible to get) data point would be the percentage of subscribers who NEVER read the feed — kind of like magazine subscribers back in the old days who just let the issues pile up.

  35. Eric Marcoullier

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    I read this one of two ways:

    1) This is completely spurious data, because all that has been checked are tech blogs. Gabe should have a pretty solid list of political and gossip blogs thanks to Memeorandum and WeSmirch, so it would be great to know whether he checked those blogs’ numbers as well.

    2) Proof that RSS readers (or maybe just Google Reader) are a massively niche tool used by the tech crowd and little else.

    Until more data is given, there’s no way to tell which is which. And without this data, the post is basically just another excuse for tech bloggers to compare their privates ;)

  36. tim finin

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:32 pm

    Where are the political blogs?

  37. Chris

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Quotes of the Day has 129K+ Subscribers…

  38. Andy Beal

    October 14th, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    I changed my mind: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....nt-1675390

    This is insanity, so please don’t add Marketing Pilgrim. :-)

  39. steve ballmer

    October 14th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    Watch out for anythong from Gaggle!
    You have a webbrowser, why use something else?
    This is just plain stupid!

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  40. Chris R.

    October 14th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    “Chris - its an accurate metric for Google Reader popularity, not tech popularity.”

    That it is, but what is that supposed to mean above the actual Google reader stats as-is?
    In linking between friend sites shouldn’t be counted. Those leaderboards are reference counts between the top sites on Technorati.

    It would be like Google’s different services ranking themselves in a top 100 list based on in-linking. It wouldn’t mean very much as a metric.

    I think if you wanted to present numbers in the facebook way to boost value, then this was a good post. It certainly shows Techcrunch on top of something.

  41. super6

    October 14th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    woot.com has 6200+ subscribers

  42. PAtrick Allmond

    October 14th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

    I’d be more interested in ACTIVE subcriptions vs subscriptions. i.e. how much is it being read vs who is subscribed. Or will this ever be possible to tell?

  43. Kaiser

    October 14th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    Make sure to drop Uncov in there!

  44. Charlie

    October 14th, 2007 at 7:48 pm

    Funny that the BBC help page on RSS doesn’t list Google Reader as an available reader!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3223484.stm

  45. Paul

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    PaulStamatiou.com - 1,551

  46. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:07 pm

    added uncov at 754 subs and Paul Stamatiou at 1551

  47. Jeremy Zawodny

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    Those numbers look fishy. Google’s feedfetcher shows over 6,000 in my server logs.

    Hmm.

  48. Israel L'Heureux

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Yeah…the blogs that people LINK to can often be wildly different than the feeds people read. That’s part of the reason we’re working on a reader that will show an enormous number of stats, including which assets (stories) from which feeds people are actually viewing.

    Anyway, I’d be happy to add this list in to the spreadsheet if you’d like:

    Google News 192,100
    ESPN.com 189,274
    Martketwatch 176,814
    make magazine 61,464
    CNN Money 41,751
    Google Blogoscoped 41,387
    The Street.com 36,048
    Fool.com 35,307
    autoblog 27,808
    defamer 22,763
    the truth about cars 21,972
    popsugar 21,946
    digg / technology 9,335
    people.com 4,862
    aVC 3,416
    valleywag 3,204
    Yahoo Entertainment News 2,609
    achewood 1,092

    Maybe we should make a tool that lets you upload your OPML file and see how many Google reader subscribers there are for each of the feeds?

    Any interest?

  49. Channy

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

    It’s very interesting. Here are popular Korean IT blogs ranking.

    IT Viewpoint - 1,079 (http://itviewpoint.com/tt/index.xml)
    Taewoo’s Web 2.0 - 802 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/twlog)
    Channy’s Blog - 781 (http://feeds.feedburner.com/channy)

    Case of feedburner,

  50. Michael Arrington

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Israel - added those as well.

  51. Thomas

    October 14th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

    List is slightly off:
    #13 s/b CNN Money
    #14 s/b Google blogoscoped
    But, hey, putting the two CNN’s together does make it seem more visually coherent…

  52. Lee Odden

    October 14th, 2007 at 9:08 pm

    toprankblog, aka “Online Marketing Blog” has 1,952

  53. Amit Agarwal

    October 14th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    Mike - can I request you to add my blog Digital Inspiration - [keyword: labnol]

    Google Subscribers - 3400

    Another thought - why not turn this list into a wiki

  54. Udi

    October 14th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    One important thing to remember about all of this is that certain feeds are part of the GR feed bundles. They will naturally have highly inflated subscriber counts. I checked out a few of them and they’re nearly all at 100k plus subscribers. This leaderboard exercise is moot, sorry.

    News:
    BBC
    Christian Science Monitor
    ESPN
    Google News
    MarketWatch
    NPR Podcast

    Technology:
    Digg
    Engadget
    Gizmodo
    Slashdot
    TechCrunch
    Wired News

    There are a bunch of other bundles too…

  55. Attila Csordas

    October 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    Here are some vlog statistics: http://videovoo.com/2007/10/14.....criptions/

  56. George

    October 14th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    Inhabitat.com has around 2000 and Treehugger has around 7000 or so…

  57. bboing

    October 14th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    So we can say that Google reader users are geeks from the UK (or that the UK users percentage is relatively high).
    I think we can also say that Google Reader user base is ~ 200k since most rss readers have at least one “general” news syndicator in their feeds. 200k users is not much when spread over all kinds of reading habits (once a day, once a week, once in a lifetime)

  58. Alex

    October 14th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    I hope this list only has the tech blogs .. The Onion and Quotes of the Day are each over 100k.

  59. David Ponce

    October 14th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    I’m having trouble reconciling Feedburner numbers, and Google’s. Adding two Google feeds gives OhGizmo!: 1,383. Feedburner gives Google Feedfetcher: 2,901. So I’m a little puzzled, either way, I think we have a shot at being on that list…

  60. Jordan Meeter

    October 14th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    Wow, you made 6th. Good job! :]

  61. Danny Sullivan

    October 14th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    Search Engine Land, 3,910 — add us to the list, Mike?

  62. Kevin Burton

    October 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm

    Hey Mike….

    I blogged about this and actually graphed the values:

    http://feedblog.org/2007/10/14.....d-by-rank/

  63. Sharon

    October 14th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

    ummm… No list is complete without some high-rated guilty pleasure filth:
    Perez Hilton - 26,267 subscribers.
    Gawker - 23,885 subscribers;

    (how’s that for a “Top 30 with a technology focus”?)

  64. KATRINEHOLM REVIEW

    October 15th, 2007 at 12:52 am

    What? Katrineholm Review is not on that list? I feel so ashamed.

  65. Danny Sullivan

    October 15th, 2007 at 12:56 am

    thanks for the add, Mike.

    Scott, David — Feedburner is showing you the Google Feedfetcher figure — and Google Feedfetcher reports a combined figure of iGoogle + Google Reader. That’s why your Google Reader figures are coming in lower.

    http://searchengineland.com/071015-033645.php explains this more, including how to get your iGoogle figure separately.

  66. Leon

    October 15th, 2007 at 1:08 am

    Lifehack.org has 8,625 + 4,423 (its feedburner feed) = 13,048 readers.

  67. blade

    October 15th, 2007 at 2:05 am

    A List Apart also has many readers

  68. Todd Cochrane

    October 15th, 2007 at 2:15 am

    Geek News Central numbers came in pretty good. The various feeds we have has the totals 3,575 +250 = 3825

  69. Tom

    October 15th, 2007 at 2:50 am

    Interesting post. You missed us off though!

    New Scientist has 111,087 subscribers to its latest headlines - putting us just behind TC.

    Your list isn’t really ‘top blogs’ though. Perhaps you should separate out news sites, or recognise that you’re just looking for the most popular feeds of any kind.

    Tom

  70. Andy Beard

    October 15th, 2007 at 3:02 am

    I am 922 or 947 depending on which day’s stats you are looking at. My listings in Google Reader probably reflect Sunday at the time of the screenshots I have just taken, around 11am Monday in Europe.

  71. George

    October 15th, 2007 at 3:07 am

    In Google, Emily Chang’s eHub feed has about 4,500. Her personal blog EmilyChang.com feed has 1,632.

  72. Mike Seery

    October 15th, 2007 at 3:12 am

    I agree with Tom. This isn’t a list of blogs and it was tech-slanted because those were the site people went and typed into the search to see their scores.

    Economist.com gets 120,784 for the daily news analysis (true web-only content) and the print edition contents (not web-only) gets 77,563.

    I also couldn’t find where the NYT gets 33,513 - I can see the home page feed at over 1m, but not one that matches the subscriber numbers you have.

    I think this whole list is way to unscientific to be of any use and ought to be labelled as such before big media picks it up and starts using it as the truth!

  73. Jeffro2pt0

    October 15th, 2007 at 4:02 am

    The only sites on this list that should even be considered a blog, are those that are authored by one person. A site that contains the voice of any more than one individual should no longer be classified as a blog hence the title of this post and the results you came up with look like BS to me.

  74. Philipp Lenssen

    October 15th, 2007 at 4:07 am

    I second that you need to take into account the default bundles in Google Reader. We could further divide them into two types of bundles: those topic bundles immediately visible upon sign-up (the “default” default bundles), and those topic bundles which you need to expand.

    There are three “default” default bundles (you still need to click “subscribe”, but they are immediately visible during sign-up):
    - News (BBC, CSM, ESPN, Google News, MarketWatch, NPR)
    - Sports (ESPN, BBC Sports, Bill Simmons, Off Wing Opinion, Sports Frog, True Hoop, Yanksfan vs Soxfan, Footbag WorldWide)
    - Fun (Colbert Report Videos, Daily Show Videos, Google Video Top 100, Quotes of the Day, Onion, YouTube Most Viewed)

    Some of the “non-default showing bundles” are:
    - Technology, Thinkers, Celebrities, Geeky, Photography, Cars and so on.

    But does this introduce a “skew”? That totally depends what you think these numbers express. If someone subscribed to a default bundle, even *without* specifically acknowledging the feeds contained with-it, they may *still* end up being a loyal Google Reader-reader of that content, say TechCrunch (or Google Blogoscoped, which is contained within the “Google-related” bundle). It’s not that you’ll ignore the items in GReader only because they were added as part of a bundle.

    On the other hand, if you want to compare blog *quality* then no, this is not a good indicator. Maybe a Google editor made a subjective choice to select these bundles (or maybe they are based on e.g. now outdated blog stats Google had). Maybe the bundles themselves are showing outdated blogs, and there may now be better alternatives. Maybe new cool blogs for these subjects came along and they are not yet contained in the bundle (suggestion to bloggers: maybe ask Google for your blog to be included? :) ).
    But that’s the nature of any ranking chart, that it doesn’t show quality, but just… well, specific ranking based on specific numbers being counter. And on a side-note, these rankings in itself, the minute they are published, “skew” their own numbers in a sort of Heisenberg fashion, because people are then more likely to find new reading tips by checking the top 10 or so. Though I don’t believe that this means you can’t make it with a fresh blog due to older blogs blocking the view — it only means it’ll take a little time (like half a year, a year) to get into this “self-increasing feedback loop”.

  75. maurizio

    October 15th, 2007 at 4:13 am

    I’m trying to do something similar automatically on my new project. Right now I use only Feedburner stats. I’m checking around 300.000 sites/blogs and I’m looking for some more url to parse.

    http://beta.nafurai.com/info/

  76. Mandeep singh bhangu

    October 15th, 2007 at 4:13 am

    Amit agarwal’s technology blog has Labnol.blogspot.com has 5,062
    subscribers

    I think u missed him

    cheers

  77. Aaron Brazell

    October 15th, 2007 at 5:59 am

    Jesus… I’m tired just watching Mike keep up with this. Mike, your job is to get every blog ever created listed… by 8am tomorrow, k? No excuses.

    Start with Technosailor. Though wait… Something really really fishy here. I have just under 1000 subscribers. Google Reader reports 7??? Huh?

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  79. Mihai Parparita

    October 15th, 2007 at 6:32 am

    We’ve now posted on the Reader blog with more details about this:

    http://googlereader.blogspot.c.....ed-up.html

    The post mentions that the counts were slightly off until this morning, so keep that in mind when looking at lists that may be using older numbers.

    Mihai Parparita
    Google Reader Engineer

  80. Kevin Newcomb

    October 15th, 2007 at 6:49 am

    There are clearly questions about the value of this kind of list, but while we’re figuring out what that is, please consider adding Search Engine Watch. We’ve got 9,576 subs to the SEW blog, and 6,879 to the site feed. If you want to add those together, that’d be 16,455. Take it for what it’s worth.

    Thanks,
    Kevin

  81. micfo.com

    October 15th, 2007 at 6:56 am

    Nice to find techcrunch there, I hope few blogs like telegraph,reuters & TMZ.com as well deserves to get listed there.

  82. Kevin C. Tofel

    October 15th, 2007 at 7:41 am

    At jkOnTheRun we show 1,993 using the the Google Reader method. Feedburner’s last count of Google Reader / Feedfetcher subscribers shows 2,589 readers out of the most recent count of 7,073 total subscribers. What’s more interesting to me than the number of total subscribers for all of these sites is the percentage of subscribers that use Google Reader. For us, it’s 37% which is is more than double the users of the next most used reader: 16% of our readers use Bloglines.

  83. Stowe Boyd

    October 15th, 2007 at 7:46 am

    /Message now is 1489 at Google Reader.

    This exercise should shame Google into making this an app, right?

  84. Steve Ballmer

    October 15th, 2007 at 7:58 am

    They left out:
    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

  85. JamesPage

    October 15th, 2007 at 8:18 am

    21,077 Guardian Unlimited home | Guardian Unlimited
    48,171 Guardian Unlimited UK Latest
    5,666 Guardian Unlimited World Latest
    4,770 Guardian Unlimited Books
    4,453 Guardian Unlimited Football
    3,261 Guardian Unlimited Technology

    Total 87,398

    I am sure that I am missing some of there feeds…..

  86. Stephen

    October 15th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    I found this quite by accident, this seems to be the new overall leader. The “Joke of the Day” at http://www.comedycentral.com/rss/jokes/index.jhtml claims to have over 1,650,000 subscribers right now.

  87. Stephen

    October 15th, 2007 at 8:32 am

    Oops, in my last post I meant over 1,165,000. That’s a big difference.

  88. randy

    October 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am

    awesome! the first blog in that list which i am subscribed to is all the way down at #21. i guess i can continue to take pride in the fact that i’ve got a unique reading list which sets me apart from the rest of you androids.

  89. Ramit Sethi

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:14 am

    My blog on personal finance and entrepreneurship (http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com) has 61,870 RSS subscribers on Google Reader. Search term: iwillteachyoutoberich

    Thanks, Mike.

  90. Tech Thoughts Will Get Into The List

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    Wish one day my blog Tech Thoughts get into that list :)

  91. Amy Wilsch

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:38 am

    Actually that surprised me in a different direction; (assuming these #’s aren’t per thousand etc) then with 650,000 TC readers (I assume the 129k feeders are included in that), 300million population of the US alone (6billion worldwide) that means not that many people in general are reading blogs yet.

    I think I’ve been in my own silicon-valley-technology hole in the ground too long.

  92. phenom

    October 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am

    The Apple blog should be added to the list.

    http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

  93. John

    October 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am

    Freelance Switch has upwards of 15,000 RSS subscribers, about 5000 of which are through Google (according to Google Reader).

    Thanks TechCrunch!

  94. jai

    October 15th, 2007 at 11:02 am

    Spotted that 2 top Indian blogs might join your list
    quickonlinetips.com is reporting 6117
    labnol.blogspot.com shows 5062

  95. Asha Dornfest

    October 15th, 2007 at 11:14 am

    Thanks for posting this list, Mike. Parent Hacks (http://www.parenthacks.com) has about 20K subscribers, about 12K of whom are Googlers (today’s number is 12005).

  96. SM-BALL

    October 15th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Wooohoo techncrunch is in it tooo…maybe someday i will create a blog which is on top :)))

  97. SecondLifeler

    October 15th, 2007 at 11:29 am

    Really impressive…but some are missing i think!

  98. Trent Hamm

    October 15th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    The Simple Dollar (http://www.thesimpledollar.com/) has 7,054 subscribers on Google Reader, split across two feeds. I believe that this list has a very strong tech slant right off the bat.

  99. Jay White - 53K via Google

    October 15th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    Thought I would mention that my blog, Dumb Little Man has a Google Reader count of 53,714 subscribers.

    That’s a pretty remarkable portion of my 61K total subscribers as shown by Feedburner.

    Jay

  100. Michael Arrington

    October 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    Interesting, all the numbers jumped substantially up today, probably because it’s Monday.

  101. Israel LHeureux

    October 15th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Over on the google reader blog, Mihai Parparita says

    “Google subscriber counts: These numbers include subscribers across all Google services, including Reader, iGoogle, and Orkut.”

    “Additionally, we’ve made changes (some as recently as today) as to how counts are being calculated. ”
    … and
    “Reader’s feed search was recently showing stale and incomplete data”

    I’m going to parse that to mean that reader had only been showing numbers for reader, and is NOW showing subscriptions from iGoogle + Orkut too.

    Whatever the case, they don’t have the parsing worked out too well yet. For example, the difference of a capital “Crunch” leads to two different numbers:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch: 169,538
    http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch: 17,782

    FB can aggregate the differences (?) and I’d expect GReader to do the same, even if only for the FB special case.

  102. Wesley Tanaka

    October 16th, 2007 at 4:21 am

    someone obviously needs to automate this.

  103. kirk gaulden

    October 16th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

    I”ve been a manger for 6 yrs… if you want money take 10% of your earnings
    and place it back into your system.

  104. Jeremy

    October 17th, 2007 at 9:04 am

    Started looking through my subscriptions. Some relatively large ones are
    The Superficial: 40,473
    Joel On Software: 34,086
    Zen Habits: ~22,000 from 4 different feeds.

  105. Ian Skerrett

    October 18th, 2007 at 5:56 am

    I might as well add the feed from the Eclipse Foundation. It comes in at 10,330.

    http://www.eclipse.org/home/eclipsenews.rss

  106. jason

    October 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am

    http://ilovetypography.com has 2000+

  107. Kevin

    October 25th, 2007 at 6:36 am

    http://freeitunessongs.blogspot.com has 100,000+ Search for itunes and you’ll find it.

  108. Webdesign

    October 31st, 2007 at 6:37 am

    Hey look this site

    http://www.ooyes.net

    Best Regards :)

  109. mattbucher

    November 1st, 2007 at 11:35 am

    Why was Kottke never featured on this list? kottke.org has over 80,000 subscribers on Google Reader.

  110. ashok

    November 4th, 2007 at 12:43 am

    Nice post

  111. ashok

    November 4th, 2007 at 12:43 am

    Visit
    http://easy-money-4u.blogspot.com

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