First of all, I’m back from my golf trip. Did you miss me? Seems like the site survived on autopilot with the exception of my spelling error on the golf trip post. Yes, it was supposed to be "Quiet Please." Now you can be as loud as you want, though.

More importantly, it appears that something’s not working either at Bloglines or with Feedburner. Bloglines has not updated since Sunday for people that have subscribed to my Feedburner feed. Don’t you feel sorry for those people? How will they ever survive without reading my posts?

Secondly, Feedburner is not recognizing all the subscribers from Bloglines that have subscribed to the Feedburner feed. That’s why my readership stats were cut in half since yesterday. I have messages in to both the support teams from Bloglines and Feedburner. It will be a fun little test to see how helpful their responses are to this situation. In the mean time, if you techies out there know how to correct the problem, please let me know.

By the way, that little box that shows the numbers of readers by Feedburner does not include the subscribers to my blog that signed up before I started offering the Feedburner feed. I know there are at least 50 or more Bloglines subscribers in that category. If my Feedburner numbers are accurate, that means there’s probably another 50 people that are using other blog readers (Pluck, SharpReader, My Yahoo!, Firefox Live Bookmarks, etc.).

In other words, the current estimated number of total subscribers is about 140. That means you’re part of an elite group of people that probably know way too much about me.

It’s good to be back.

UPDATE: I’m pretty impressed with the FeedBurner folks. I posted a message on their support and discussion forums and had a reply in about an hour with a couple of messages coaching me on how I needed to communicate with Bloglines. The Bloglines folks acknowledged the problem was on their end and indicated they hoped to have the problem corrected shortly. I don’t know how widespread the issue was, but it appears from the FeedBurner forum that others have been experiencing the same issue. Bloglines corrected the problem sometime this evening, and my blog is back to full strength. With that news, I know you’ll all rest easier tonight.

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