John Battelle writes in his roundup today about measuring blog populrity with Dapper / Blotter which uses technorati data in generating a chart of your blog popularity.

In order for the Blotter application to work, however, you need to embed some code onto your blog - not a big deal - but on most of my blogs - I don’t control the templates so it’s much harder for me to test these out on my own blogs.

<img src="http://www.dappit.com/dapplications/BlogPlot/{Your blog's URL}">

For example, the graph below gathers the statistics over time for Guy Kawasaki’s blog (who gets credit for coming up with this service)

 

It’s a nice chart, I’d not mind having something like this to look at on a daily basis - I think it’s good for metrics to see how your blogs are doing if you don’t obsess over it.