As bloggers, are we past the point of caring about eyeballs?

I only check my Statcounter stats (how many people are reading) once every few months, because those don't tell me much on a day-to-day basis (I like checking out the monthly/yearly trends once in a while. Pretty graphs!). I do check technorati more frequently because I like to see who's linking to specific posts - I'm more interested in seeing where a given post ends up than numbers per se. It's more about who's linking than how many. (Ecosystem I check maybe once every six months - I find that pretty meaningless.)