Steve Rubel takes some exception to a statement from Jim Lanzone of Ask Jeeves:

Jim Lanzone from Ask Jeeves gave some interesting data about feed subscribers at this week's Web 2.0 conference. He said that 14,363 blogs have at least 50 subscribers on Bloglines. Lanzone calls these blogs that “really really matter.” Uh, don't they all matter? Jim, this is 1.0 thinking. This is not a numbers game. A blog with two readers can “matter” if those two readers are people like Robert Scoble and Doc Searls. God help Bloglines.

Here's the thing though - if a site only has two readers, what's the actual liklihood that either of them will be a connector? Not high, I'd warrant. The number of readers may be a sub-optimal measure of relevance, but it's as good a measure as any that we have. Not to mention this - if a top connector is one of the handful of readers, it won't stay that way - as soon as that connector points to the blog, readership will go up.