Alexa: WordPress.com
Alexa: Blogger.com
That's ... impressive. I'm still puzzled that WordPress didn't have a stronger response to the Google Reader shutdown. My best guess is that they'd already decided to abandon the Wordpress.com business.
It will be interesting to return to this topic in six months. I'm amazed how many good alternatives have already emerged to Google Reader. I didn't think we'd have so many choices.
See also:
- The Net is a forest. It has fires. 4/2013. Today, Salmon on linkrot.
- Project Ducky - why I've stopped using new Cloud services 3/2013. (Except where migration is pretty easy - like FeedBin).
- Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it
Sites with RSS feeds should actually see more traffic without Google Reader since Google had to access each new article only once …
ReplyDeleteWhat you observed is probably not linked to Google Reader but could as well be a shift to Tumblr:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tumblr.com
Serious blogging is usually not done via a generic platform, you're an exception. And casual blogging probably moves more and more to less complex platforms or even social media like Twitter.
Good observations, they all make sense to me.
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