Blogging My Life...It has been over a year since I switched to Google Reader and 11 months or so since I posted my RSS reader trends. So I thought I take a look back and see if my RSS reading habits have changed over the course of the year.
The green bars 
are my new RSS reader stats and the redish bars 
are old stats.
Note: Overall, I am reading a lot more posts per day, tracking more feeds and subscriptions. The charts overlay nicely because they are normalized. So I am using them to show a pattern - it will make sense as you read:
Time of Day: It seems like I am viewing less feeds closer to midnight then I have about a year ago. I guess I am going to sleep earlier? Ah, I now consume a lot of my RSS on my iPhone, so I have less to read when I get back home late after basketball. That explains it, I think...
Day of Week: Looks like, although I am reading more feed items per day, the pattern of the number of feeds on a daily basis is the same. I.e. I read the most amount of feeds on a Tuesday, like I did a year ago. Not sure why...
Last 30 Days: This chart doesn't really show much, except that I didn't take a day off this month.
Have your RSS reading habits changed over the course of the year? Mine really haven't, in terms of when I read. I do consume more, about 200 more feed items per day more (if I read the charts correctly).
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Interesting. Mine spikes on my bus ride in/out of work every morning from the iPhone.
I think it would be curious to find out what method people are reading RSS - behind a desk at an office, in transit on a mobile, at home comuter?
Ever noticed the lack of "comment" links at the bottom of RSS feeds, only social tagging links.
With more people reading via feeds are blogs missing out on the lack of providing a "comment" link right there?
Posted by: Marshall | April 9, 2008 10:55 AM
>I read the most amount of feeds on a Tuesday, like I did a year ago. Not sure why...
c'mon dont you know about social tuesdays ;-)
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Posted by: graywolf | April 9, 2008 10:57 AM
LOL Michael!
Good points Marshall.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | April 9, 2008 10:59 AM
It's kind of sad. I don't remember the last time I opened up my RSS reader.
My day has become so busy, I don't even have time to read RSS feeds anymore.
hopefully I can get back into the habit once my new computer arrives...
Posted by: Jonathan Dingman | April 9, 2008 12:19 PM