There were many "mainfeeds" for
blogs.gotdotnet.com and they didn't kill the
non-MSBloggers. People will chose what bloggers they
like, and subscribe to them. I don't subscribe to the
main feed because that is just too much noise. I
subscribe to the bloggers I like and the bloggers who
don't post every five minutes to see who can make it to
the top of the list. If you think the MS blogger feed is
going to kill your hits, try blogging somewhere else and
compare. I am guessing the 50gb of traffic a month isn't
all going to a few MS bloggers, but others like
yourself. Anyway, it isn't about the amount of audience,
but the quality you bring to your audience.
"Now I'll have to work harder to get the
readability that I'm 'used to'."
Nah, you get assloads of traffic from being on .NET
Weblogs. I blog on starting a Richmond (VA, USA) .NET
user group, and get no responses. Someone else blogs it
here, and get 50 responses in 2 days.
You've got it good here. The people that *really* have
to worry about content are the ones are on their own
domain that don't crosspost to an aggregation.