The Minority Report

Sit down
in
front of
your computer screen
and eventually
the entire world
will surf bySit down in front of your computer screen and eventually the entire world will surf by. I was looking for a chicklet to put on my blog to let everyone know exactly how many readers that I don’t have. I came across Dipping into the Blogpond and found this quote interesting.

What interests me, is what motivates people to display their RSS subscriber count via a chicklet?

If you saw a feedburner subscriber count as displayed at the top of this post, would it give you the feeling that the blog is a worthwhile place to be?

What about these? (amazing what you can do in a few minutes on photoshop)

(I reckon it would be an interesting social experiment to put up a bogus feedburner chicklet with a really high count & seeing what difference it makes to the subscriber rate. NOT that I’m about to try it of course, that would be a big no-no, but it’d be interesting….)

Subscriber Count Chicklet – What’s your magic number? | Dipping into the Blogpond

I also wonder what would happen to my subscriber rate if there was a high number in the chicklet (or at least a real number ;) ) Like the author of that post, I judge the worth of the blog or site by the number of subscribers. I also judge eyeballs to guestimate how much money a blog may be bringing in using Adsense.

My formula goes something like this:

Number of subscribers * 1.0% click thru * $0.12 average payout * 365 days a year = …profit

By that formula, I actually owe Google money…

Regardless, Michael Arrington @ TechCrunch is my idol (besides the stalking) because of the over 2,000,000+ subscribers .

I’ll take 1% of that action.I’ll take 1% of that action.

p.s. What is your Adsense formula? Add your thoughts in the comment section.