Fred quipped earlier that taking a blogging hiatus increased his subscriber numbers…
I’ve been snowed under since after Christmas, so my blogging has slowed to a stand still-but I’ve added 50 more subscribers in the past two weeks despite no posts.
Strange.
Jason Ball 
It’s b/c Google started reporting their numbers to Feedburner ! Mystery solved.
Bummer. I had begun the recursive analysis of data I’ve been collecting and had planned on adding a new entry to Wikipedia:
Fred Destin’s Law- Expressed as “a doubling every 18 hours” of subscribers. Fred Destin’s Law suggests the phenomenal progress of Feedburner subscribers as an inverse function of blog post frequency.