William Reardon’s Blog

Okay, not really me, maybe more Bill Waterson.

The other day Jimmy noticed that if you go to Google Homepage Content Directory (where you can do a My Yahoo type thing), the 9th item listed is my Calvin & Hobbes RSS feed.

Sweet!

Sadly, it doesn’t look like Google reports their subscriber counts back to publisher (like everyone else does), so I don’t really know many people are reading it there. Still, it got me curious. Since I use Bloglines, I see my C&H subscriber count for those users just about daily (currently at 353), but I never really checked how many total subscribers there are. Some greps and pipes later, counting only web based aggregators, it looks like there are 971 people who read it.

Damn, I never would have guessed that many.

Still, it’s pretty cool knowing some simple Perl scripting brings a little smile into that many people’s day.

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