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While most of us are sleeping every morning, our server is going through the index and grabbing fresh scores from all of our sources. Of course, that doesn't mean they'll be any different than the day before.
Because the Power 150 is essentially a web mash-up, our scores are reliant upon the software and hardware of many other sources, and with so many layers at work, there will occasionally be hiccups. However, if you notice one of your scores has dropped precipitously, let us know, and we'll be happy to look into it and figure out a solution if we can.
We'd love to. But unfortunately, Google doesn't have an open API that we can use to grab them. Although there's a work-around to find out Feedfetcher stats through the Reader web application, we don't, as of yet, have a method of automating that for the hundreds of blogs we rate daily on the Power 150.
Again, we'd love to. Ad Age is a happy Feedburner customer, and if every blog used it to track their RSS feeds, we'd incorporate it into the Power 150's metrics. Unfortunately, a substantial portion of the marketing-blog world doesn't use Feedburner, and we don't want to force those bloggers to sign up (and set up a redirect, which can be tricky for some and impossible with some blogging platforms) in order for them to get accurate Power 150 scores.
Even among bloggers who already use it, many do not have Awareness (which makes subscriber counts public) enabled, because it's disabled by default when you create an account. This adds a second layer of "opting-in" that we would require of all the blogs on the Power 150 in order for us to use Feedburner, and we think this would further complicate the process of getting accurate scores.
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