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(No aliens were harmed / got hurt during the events mentioned in or writing of this post)

Recently going thru the list of referrers to my site, I happed to glance upon an entry “www.google.com/reader”. Among other things, it also meant that I was not the sole subscriber to one of the least used feature of this blog, the RSS feed. To be honest, it was an exciting thought but the titillation wore off soon and I got on with other “real” things that end up filling my stomach.

It was next morning while driving to office that something stuck me. Even though it was too much for the cat to take, there was this sudden need in me to know how many people would have actually subscribed to the RSS, however low it would be. With Statcounter and Google analytics, I get some statistics regarding the WEB 1.0 visitors to my site the site but this was WB 2.0. And so my morning started with a quest for finding a similar service for RSS feeds.

To be honest, one part of me desperately wanted to find such a service so that I could quench my curiosity fast but the other part, the veiled entrepreneur, hoped that such a service was not there, since I thought that this was a very marketable idea. So it was with a mixed feeling that I clicked my way through to feedburner.com. So to cut a long story short, I got my feeds burnt and in the process added another feature that I had once given up on, email subscription to the comments feed.And whoever that *wonderful* soul is, who has me on his/her google reader, please do update with the latest link so that I can satisfy my petty ego by seeing a 2 on my subscriber count