He wanted more people to subscribe to his blog’s RSS feed. Not via email (though he couldn’t control that), but in a RSS aggregator. By putting a box above individual posts with a call to subscribe, he hoped subscriptions would rise. He hoped he would be helping his busy readers.
Note:
1. A mini saga is a story told in exactly 50 words. Not 49 or 51 but exactly 50.
2. For a more complete list of Mini Sagas, please visit Raj Setty’s Squidoo lens "Mini Sagas"




