April 3, 2007

On RSS Feeds and Working 24 Hours Straight

I know many of you have noticed that my feed burner counts go up and down a lot. On Friday it was at 227, 186 on Saturday, 198 on Sunday, and 247.

Feed Burner can’t know for sure how many people are subscribed because people turn off their computers or don’t visit their homepages that have my RSS feed. The point is, they can only count the people that are pulling down my RSS feed to their computer. As you might expect, weekends are low points since the most computer usage happens at work.

So my RSS feeds regularly dip on the weekends. On that note, I have gained something between 2 and 15 new readers this week! Hurray! :)

Expect another update later today. Normally I collect articles throughout the day and then I post my entry before I go to bed. But tonight I got back from work at 2:00AM after working for a day straight, so that wasn’t my first priority getting home. ;)

Although posting this update was…

Filed under: Life — Michi @ 1:31 am

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  1. hahaha, I love Michi’s priorities :)

    Comment by Kendi — April 3, 2007 @ 7:33 pm

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