Eighteen months ago my friend Max and I launched the Blogarithm service to allow readers to track updates to their favorite blogs. Earlier today we registered our 1000th user. Collectively they are watching over 3000 pages, blogs and otherwise. Our users seem to track specific subcultures of the blogosphere: knitting, Christianity, Brazilian and Malaysian sites seem very popular.
Most sites we track have only one subscription. Unsuprizingly, the sites most watched are those with a Blogarithm sticker on them like the one in the left hand column. The most popular blog is LibertyThink with 68 subscriptions, followed by Search Engine Lowdown, Catalogablog and Magonia. By contrast, this blog has only two, one of which is me!
Max and I have a whole list of improvements to Blogarithm we hope to add over 2004 which will make it more accurate, help it scale to 10,000 users and make it easier for users to keep track of their subscriptions. One we are actively developing is a new set of stickers that are easy to adapt to different site colors, and to fit in smaller spaces. Look for that by the end of the year.