How many subscribers did Scoble bring to this blog?
Here's my Feedburner graph of # subscribers over time:
As you can see, in the first 12 months, this blog slowly built up (linearly, pretty much), an audience of about 1000 readers. The big spike that you see is when Scoble linked to this blog - since then, in about 2-3 weeks, the blog picked up its 1500 subscribers.
The traffic was actually more than I've ever gotten being on Techmeme or Hacker News, which tells you how much traffic he gets. Pretty amazing!
If I remember correctly, he didn't just link to you, but put a plug in for your blog as a good read he'd picked up from his friends' shared feeds.
That kind of special attention can really make a difference.
I'm one of your new 1500 subscribers, and I'm glad I found your blog too. Keep up the good work.
Posted by:patrick | January 22, 2008 at 02:08 PM
by the way, that was one of the most unreadable captchas I've ever seen
Posted by:patrick | January 22, 2008 at 02:14 PM
Patrick is right, Scoble did recommend your blog and that's how I was able to read your blogs and subscribe to it ever since. so I'm in those 1500 new subscribers too.
Posted by:darwin widjaja | January 23, 2008 at 01:48 PM
Love him or hate him, Scoble is a phenomenon. I was reading this paper last night http://tinyurl.com/23ywyv (caution, computer science paper, but if a comm. prof. can understand it, so can you). Check out figure 10 on p. 9. It pretty much shows where Scoble is: he is the connection point between several networks. Fascinating and creepy how much computer algorithms can figure out about human behavior.
Posted by:Mihaela V (prprof_mv) | January 23, 2008 at 04:43 PM