世論 What Japan Thinks

I’ve moved (or more correctly, Google told me I have to move!) my RSS feed to http://feedproxy.google.com/WhatJapanThinks, and I have signed up for advertisements within the feed.

For posts over 100 words or so you should see one Google ad at the bottom. I’ll run them for a month and if they aren’t doing much, I’ll ditch them. Hope you don’t mind. If you notice any problems, please give me a shout.

Thanks,
Ken Y-N

Here’s a subject that I haven’t seen a survey on for a while; goo Research used to do a regular monthly survey up until last year when they dropped it and replaced it with a Wikipedia one. The topic, as reported on by japan.internet.com, was RSS readers.

Demographics

Between the 7th and 11th of March 2008 1,100 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 12.0% in their teens, 22.7% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, and 27.6% aged fifty or older.

Pictured above is my statistics from my RSS feed at FeedBurner for Thursday the 15th of May 2008, my highest ever susbscriber count of 1,991; to each of you I say thank you very much!

I couldn’t blog without RSS – I use Google Reader, and for example to find news for my Trusted Computing blog I have subscribed to half a dozen Google blog and news searches, so whenever a new story appears I get an automatic reminder. On the other hand, for this site half my sources do not offer feeds, which is a bit of a pain.
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I’ve updated my RSS newsfeed to use the Ordered List FeedBurner plugin, I hope, so I should now be outsourcing all my feed subscription services to FeedBurner. You, the reader, shouldn’t notice any difference, and won’t need to change anything, I hope… Please let me know if you have any problems!

UPDATE, 26 January: All seems to be working well, as far as I can see. I was rather pleasantly surprised to see there’s nearly 100 people subscribed to the feed.

I’m on holiday from today, so the post frequency will decrease a little, although I do have a couple of interesting surveys queued up regarding electronic money and celebs, and perhaps two other interesting irons in the fire…

I’ve also tarted up the RSS feed with Better Feed, to add a wee footer for the benefit of people syndicating me through LiveJournal who might be wondering where the stuff is coming from.