Tag Archives: metrics

Subscriber Numbers Are Meaningless part due

October 6, 2007 – 11:22 am

I took a break from coding statzen this morning to read some blogs and I saw a post from Dave Winer talking about Yet Another Feedburner Problem. The gist of which is described here. Basically, you can send a single http request to Feedburner that will drastically inflate (or likely deflate) the subscriber count [...]

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Rankings, Comparison, and Metrics

October 5, 2007 – 1:13 am

The absolute uselessness of the Techmeme Leaderboard is being noticed and agreed upon by what seems to be every blogger on the internet minus a small minority. There is a fascination with rankings and top 100 lists. As I see it there are two driving forces for the creation of and attention to [...]

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