Blogging in the New Year:Changes to Your Feed

You’ve probably noticed after coming home from Christmas that your number of subscribers on your blog has dropped significantly.

I was doing some research on the whole Friendfeed / Feedburner fiasco and found the best conclusion for the new year at ReadWriteWeb:

…Google Dominates, RSS Readers Less Relevant…

These statistics are by no means the definitive RSS Reader market numbers. They do clearly show two things though:

1) Google now dominates what’s left of the RSS Reader market. Bloglines is hanging in there, but it seems like it’s given up the fight judging by lack of activity in its blog and traffic dips.

2) RSS reading is a very fragmented experience circa 2009. People can monitor news and information via Twitter, Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, their Firefox bookmarks, their OS, aggregators like Techmeme, and so on.

You can read the whole article here.

For me, I knew who reads my blog.  They comment or tell me on Twitter.  And when I redesigned the site these thoughts were on my mind:

-not about the numbers

-It’s about  relationships

-I’m not blogging for money

-this is a place to share ideas, inspiration, and thought-processes.

What about you? Will the change in RSS numbers change the way you blog in 2010?