> I'm on Blogger so I don't have those stats. Only number I have comes > from FeedBurner.
And here's where I insert my rant on free vs. fee services (not directed at you personally Taylor, but at the entire principle ;) Nothing about free services is truly free. Free means your are exchanging something other than money for a good or service. Free might mean viewing an advertisement. Free might mean giving up certain rights to your content or privacy. Or in the case of online services, free means giving up quality of service guarantees and access to information. When your free blog hosting provider goes down, you don't have a legitimate complaint about quality of service because you didn't trade anything for a guarantee of 99.9999% uptime. When your free download hosting service meters your bandwidth because CNN linked to your news story, you don't have a legitimate complaint because you didn't trade anything for a guarantee of a certain amount of network access. When you want access to statistics about how many downloads you generate or how many people are visiting your site, you don't have a legitimate complaint because the traffic ultimately belongs to whoever is providing the bandwidth and Web presence where you are currently displaying your content. When Apple chooses not to disclose download stats to podcasters/video bloggers who get free access to 25 million+ desktops, you don't have a legitimate complaint because everyone who gets access to traffic statistics is paying to be there. Even if you sign a contract with a free service to provide you a certain level of service, they aren't bound by those terms and may change them at any time because you didn't provide any consideration for the contract. What free services do provide is a way to get your message out when you can't afford the alternative. You are trading the opportunity cost of guaranteed levels of service and information access for the ability to have no barrier to entry for distribution. When things like QoS and data mining become important, it's time to open the wallet and purchase that level of access (which for most people is about the same price as a cable subscription). Jake Ludington http://www.mediablab.com http://www.podcastingstarterkit.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
