In some ways, I’m blown away by the popularity of my podcasts, and yet in listening to people like Adam Curry, Dave Slusher, or even Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central, it seems clear that far fewer people are listening to my little podcasts than others. For instance, I tried looking up my lowly weblog on pubsub.com and compared it to others.
- Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code ranked 955.
- Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles scores a ranking of 1,961.
- Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central ranked 4,209.
- Brian Cantoni’s personal weblog ranked 15,507.
- My own weblog? Ranked 852,031.
Should I be encouraged or discouraged by this?
Incidently, I mentioned Brian Cantoni’s weblog only because I created a subscription list on pubsub.com that tries to find links to brainwagon.org, and he showed up today and had nice things to say about my podcasts.
My popularity does seem to be growing. Yesterday I had my first day of > 1gb bandwidth consumed, with 87 people downloading my latest podcast. If that keeps up, I may be able to exhaust my 40gb of monthly bandwidth.
Should I be encouraged or discouraged by this?
Encouraged, definitely. After all, you’re the one out in the tail, and we all know that’s where the action is.
[ Ed: Thanks Tom! ]