LazyWeb request: RSS readership tracking. Can someone please build what Brian Peddle describes here: a tool for generating stats of RSS syndication feed readership? 

I have no idea how many people read this Weblog, because much of the audience seems to come via the RSS feed.  I have no doubt this will become more common in the future.  I hardly read any blogs that don't offer syndication feeds, because they are so much more efficient for skimming lots of different sites.  Dave, Scott, Dave, or BenMenAnil, you listening?
[Werblog]

Yes, please. I want this yesterday. What he says. Thank you.

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I just learned about another SQL Server weblog community: SQL Team weblogs. Running on Scott Watermasysk's .TEXT. By the way, the SQL Team website has tons of info on SQL Server.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

I was going to point to this as a good example of the benefits you obtain when you lower the barriers to expression. And it is. But it also contains some interesting material on knowledge work from a slightly different point of view than I've taken before. So I've also subscribed to their RSS feed (SQL Team Weblog RSS feed).

One of the benefits you get when you lower the barriers to expression and lower the barriers to attention by providing RSS feeds is that the abstract notions of self-organizing networks get a set of operational tools. This is what is getting us excited about the potential for these new tools inside and across organizations.

Blogging in organizations = lowering the barriers to expression + lowering the barriers to attention. That's a formula that warrants some thought. Moreover, it's a formula that would likely never have occurred to me without living inside the phenomenon.

9:04:00 AM •  • comment  

Dare Obasanjo: "The blogerati need to accept the fact that their medium of communication is also the favored way for teenage girls to carry on in the grand tradition of "Dear Diary."

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

This is yet another one of those silly observations. It's on the order of noting that four-color presses print both Hustler and National Geographic. The most important criteria to me about these new tools is how quickly and to what extent do they get out of your way. The power of blogging tools has been to lower the barriers to expression by at least an order of magnitude.

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