Don't Be A Dick Errr a ShoeMoney

Sometimes I do stupid things... no really! For instance last May it seemed people were just completely obsessed with my feedburner count on subscribers. If it went down I got emails asking what happen if it went up I got emails congratulating me. Pretty weird. So one day I decided just to remove it. Then I started getting emails that there was no possible way for people to sign up for my feed... I thought to myself, "whatever, people can figure it out if they really want to" (which is the lazy way out). So yesterday I was looking at my Feedburner stats and pretty surprised to see they look to have completely plateaued at around 16,500 readers since I took the little counter off. Meanwhile my online arch nemesis John Chow skyrockets up to 27,000+ readers. Sure I could use a lot of excuses... but people can always come up with excuses why they fail. So yesterday I pinged unique blog designs to make my RSS button clickable and now hopefully the trend will go back up!