I got a huge shock this morning when I came online and looked at the RSS count on the blog. It said 65. Yesterday it was 152 so you can imagine how shocked I was that I had lost 87 subscribers overnight. I was so disillusioned that I was ready to give up blogging and become a monk. (well, not really!).

Then I read John Chow’s blog and discovered the cause. He lost 5000 subscribers overnight and went hunting for the cause. It turns out that the missing subscribers use Google Reader. It seems that Google has turned off Feedfetcher which delivers the number of Google Reader users to blog RSS counts.

Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll have my subscriber count back up to normal.

Fingers crossed.

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