An interesting piece of work from techPresident analysing the take up of webfeeds from candidate's blogs. For anyone who now feels alienated by both the headline and the first sentence, RSS - or webfeeds - allow you to subscribe to a favourite blog and receive its newest material automatically. (The orange icon at the top right of this column is where you can find them for Deadline USA. Go on, subscribe - it's free.)
The most subscribed candidate of any party is Barack Obama, reflecting, says techPresident's Joshua Levy, his domination of social networking sites. For the Republicans, the winner is Fred Thompson. Levy is perplexed - suggesting Thompson's lead in RSS but middle rank on YouTube and Facebook could be a legacy of the summer buzz before his campaign launch.
So, the RSS primary - not that important. Levy notes that overall blog subscriptions are low and it may be just another indication that in candidate blogs "are not where it's at" in the 2008 campaign.
