I'm glad to know that I was not the only one experiencing challenges with Feedburner's stats. I now just use it as a subscription tool, nothing more. Thanks for your post, Dave.

Dave, I gave up on statistics ages ago. If it's important enough, people will comment, or contact you by email.

I agree with everything you say about Feedburner (and what the rest are saying about Technorati). I think there is no good way to know who is reading a blog. You just have to have faith that people are.

Hmm, interesting way you talk about Feedburner's statistics since I know exactly what you mean. However, I rarely look at their stats anymore. I don't even look at Sitemeter, preferring the look and feel (and depth) of Google Analytics. The problem with monopolies that people trust is what happens if Feedburner goes belly-up tomorrow? What happens to the subscribers who may not be tech-literate enough to know what happened? Maybe bloggers and content creators would serve an active audience to change the structure of feeds whereby one can be syndicated to more than one feed, whereby if one goes down there's a backup...and allowing users to subscribe to either feed depending on features.

Dave, as far as I know nothing exists in the way of competition (I do know of people who have discussed the opportunity for a business venture here, though). As a wordpress user, I always found the built in analytics to be more than enough for me.

I'm glad to know that I was not the only one experiencing challenges with Feedburner's stats. I now just use it as a subscription tool, nothing more. Thanks for your post, Dave.

Dave, I gave up on statistics ages ago. If it's important enough, people will comment, or contact you by email.

I agree with everything you say about Feedburner (and what the rest are saying about Technorati). I think there is no good way to know who is reading a blog. You just have to have faith that people are.

Hmm, interesting way you talk about Feedburner's statistics since I know exactly what you mean. However, I rarely look at their stats anymore. I don't even look at Sitemeter, preferring the look and feel (and depth) of Google Analytics.

The problem with monopolies that people trust is what happens if Feedburner goes belly-up tomorrow? What happens to the subscribers who may not be tech-literate enough to know what happened?

Maybe bloggers and content creators would serve an active audience to change the structure of feeds whereby one can be syndicated to more than one feed, whereby if one goes down there's a backup...and allowing users to subscribe to either feed depending on features.

Dave, as far as I know nothing exists in the way of competition (I do know of people who have discussed the opportunity for a business venture here, though). As a wordpress user, I always found the built in analytics to be more than enough for me.