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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>duncanriley.com - Latest Comments in The State of the Blogosphere, another excuse for people to misquote numbers</title><link>http://duncanriley.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:43:36 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: The State of the Blogosphere, another excuse for people to misquote numbers</title><link>http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/04/18/the-state-of-the-blogosphere-another-excuse-for-people-to-misquote-numbers/#comment-3290816</link><description>Looking at data from bloglines users, we've concluded that&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;  - The feeds that really matter (FTRMs) are a very small fraction of blogosphere&lt;br&gt;  - FTRMs double each year, not each six months&lt;br&gt;  - Most users follow a modest number of feeds&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For details, see &lt;a href="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/04/18/preferential-attachment-in-feeds/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/04/18/pre...&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tim FInin</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:43:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The State of the Blogosphere, another excuse for people to misquote numbers</title><link>http://www.duncanriley.com/2006/04/18/the-state-of-the-blogosphere-another-excuse-for-people-to-misquote-numbers/#comment-3290815</link><description>Phew, did a quick check when I blogged that and I'm happy to say I didn't fall for the misquote. :-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I guess many folks simply assume Technorati is the be-all and end-all of blog tracking - when based on the numbers 35m/200m they only cover around 20% of what's out there.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Martin</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:14:49 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>