Inactive Blogs
So I was going through Google Reader this morning as I tend to do every morning (I love the fact that I can say that now) and thought I would check my recent trends as far as who had been posting most frequently and who I’ve been reading most. Then I clicked on the “inactive” tab to see who hadn’t been upating. I was shocked to see how many people were on the list. At first I started just unsubscribing to some of these but then I started actually opening up the sites to see if the site was down or if just hadn’t been updated in a while. Surprisingly I noticed quite a few that had been updated but obvioulsy had changed their rss feed since I wasn’t seeing their updates. This makes me wonder why more people aren’t using FeedBurner.
For those who don’t know, FeedBurner is a an rss feed service that allows you to manage your rss feed and see detailed stats on your subscribers. One of the best features of using FeedBurner is the rss address that it gives you. You post this address as your own rss feed and on the back end you plug your blog’s rss feed into feedburner. This allows everyone to subscribe to one feed and any time you change your rss feed or blog address all you have to do is change the rss feed address in feedburner and all of your subscribers start getting the new feed. Thus eliminating the loss of subscribers.
Now back to the topic at hand. As I was saying, i started to check to see if any of the inactive blogs actually were inactive or not. Found a few that had been updated and I updated my subscriptions, others had been deleted or still lay dormant. I ended up unsubscribing to about 20 sites that either have been removed, I no longer had an interest in, or had been inactive for over a year. I’m a stats whore and so when Google 
Reader says I have so many subscriptions I want them to be legit subscriptions. Now of course, there are still a few blogs from some good friends that haven’t updated since 2008 but I won’t unsubscribe on the off chance that they update at some point.
So the question is, why aren’t you updating us on your life?
I haven’t logged into my blog in several months. I don’t even know if its still there.
Quit stalking Felicia Day! ;p
Feedburner got weird when google took it over… it basically died… had tons of problems and people started jumping ship… The kicker for me was when they changed http://feed.whatever to http://feeds2.whatever and when they did that it broke a ton of shit.
I’m honestly still real hesitant to use it… Google doesn’t talk about it and it just doesn’t feel good anymore. The stats weren’t all that intriguing either.
They really need to make something happen there and make it “official” that it’s a living breathing Google project
Wow. That’s so true. I just started checking in on some people I haven’t heard from in a while. I think for me, I have so much to share, but I get overwhelmed and just don’t do it at times. I go through highs and lows with the updates. I also think facebook and twitter have caused me to post less often on my blog. But now I’m gonna start posting more often. Pinky swear.
Yeah, it’s like you are talking right to me. I blog regularly for others, so I neglect my own, which is really the most important. I continue to update it behind the scenes as new versions of Wordpress come out, and the Thesis theme is updated, But I’m painfully aware that I haven’t blogged since last November. But now I want to, but I figure I might as well make it a whole year, I’m close enough. This is the first time I’ve gone more than a month in a very long time, much less an entire year. It’s stupid, I know. But once my self imposed hiatus is over, I plan to blog again regularly. Like my life depends on it, cuz it kinda does.