Today I counted the number of subscribers to a list of weblogs listed as Most Popular Blogs for 3/26/2004
on Bloglines.com. It is interesting to see that even the popular blogs attract only hundreds of subscribers. Compared to e.g. magazines or radio and television channels that is peanuts.
Blog --------------------- Description --- subscribers
Bloglines ---------------- News -------------------------undisclosed
Slashdot ---------------- News for nerds --------------842 subscribers
Wired News ------------ Tech/bus news --------------792 subscribers
Boing Boing ------------ Wonderful things ------------719 subscribers
Google Weblog -------- news on search engine -----628 subscribers
Dilbert ------------------ Web Comics ------------------552 subscribers
The Register ----------- Criticism on IT ---------------498 subscribers
Kuro5hin --------------- Trenchy tech&culture ------438 subscribers
Joel on Software ------ Software Management -----435 subscribers
Gizmodo --------------- Gadgets ------------------------390 subscribers
Salon.com ------------- Makes you think --------------354 subscribers
New York Times ------- Latest from NYT -------------330 subscribers
Quotes of the Day ---- Humorous Quotations ------ 328 subscribers
Scientific American --- Science&Technology ------- 291 subscribers
BBC News -------------- Up to date --- Worldnews ---273 subscribers
CNET News ------------ Tech/bus/IT news -----------265 subscribers
Are we just in the upswing phase, or is there, even on a global scale, just a small audience for blogs?
I welcome any comments, as well as tips for other popular blogs with possibly thousands of subsribers,. e.g. fan sites.
Henk,
these are only subscriptions using Bloglines, many people use other news aggrerators...
Posted by: LIlia | Sunday, March 28, 2004 at 07:19 PM
One thing to note, the subscriptions you counted are just the people who are subscribed who have made their profiles public. That's only a small percentage of Bloglines users. So the actual subscriber numbers are much larger. Still not the same as radio or TV subscription numbers, but just give us some time. :-)
Posted by: Mark Fletcher | Sunday, March 28, 2004 at 07:21 PM