Pat O’Bryan told me about a really cool time-waster or priceless-educator called Stumble Upon.
I signed up for it, told it my main interests, and before you know it I was “stumbling upon” website after website that were amazing, curious, odd; all relevant to me; and most of which I had never heard of before.
It’s a wonderful learning experience to look at a parade of websites — all containing information relevant to your declared interests — and wonder why you don’t stay at any of them longer than nine seconds.
It’s a reminder that people are landing on your website and making the same kind of snap decisions.
In short, your site better load quick and get to the point fast, or give a good reason to stay, else your new visitor will be gone in a flash.
After thirty minutes (or was it four hours?) of stumbling upon new sites, I finally came across this message:
You Have Reached the End of the Internet
Go out and get some fresh air.
And that’s what I’m gonna go do.
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
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Joe… that’s StumbleUpon… it’s awesome, but a major time eater. Good thing you got to the end of the ‘net after only 30 minutes. But even if it WAS four hours, that’s still pretty good! 🙂
Stumbleupon does have it’s advantages in that it allows many sites that one would never come upon to be revealed. As for stumbling to the end of the internet…who knew it even had an end. Maybe the universe at large was just letting you know that even at the so called “end” there is more….it’s called Life…enjoy it while you can 🙂
Hi Joe – I actually make money with StumbleUpon 😈
How? I write tips and tricks for the computer, Internet and homepage, and some daily, funny tips, both in Danish. The pages are monetized with AdSense. A lot of the tips I find with StumbleUpon, so when I’m “wasting” 30 minutes with Stumbling around, my time is not wasted at all 😛
Great post, Dr Vitale!
I never had anyone explained StumbleUpon the way you did… not to mention your email subject title with your same blog post title that caught my attention that brought me here…
Though I heard about this from others…but didn’t join till now after knowing what StumbleUpon is all about.
And now… learning to stumble without falling – as StumbleUpon’s welcome email said: “And always remember the “Golden Rule” of Stumbling! — the more you do it, the better it gets!”
My heart almost stopped because I thought some deep pockets tycoon finally did it. Bought the internet. All the work I had done so far down the drain, what was I thinking.
That was an excellent headline that went directly into my swipe file.