One of the drawbacks to RSS is that unlike identifying who is linking in to one’s site or blog, we don’t really have a way to truly discover who is subscribing to our RSS feeds.

Is that a big deal? It depends.

It’s a big deal if you’re a blogger or online news organization trying to inform potential advertisers of your reach.

I think it may also matter in the whole area of determining who should be called an“influential” or “authoritative” blogger. Today Technorati, and most everyone else determines this influence by counting the number of incoming links, which is fine as far as it goes, and overall works surprisingly well. But as more and more people choose to “vote” on which bloggers they feel are important by the feeds they subscribe to, it seem that this metric rather than links in should become more important. But how can this be done?

I have a question in to David Sifrey of Technorati on this. What do you think?

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