In the last two days I have discovered more cool web sites than I have in the previous six months. If you haven’t already stumbled upon it, stumble upon is a great way to discover new sites. I am a regular net user, and I spend a lot of time trawling the web, but it’s easy to get bogged down in habit and routine. Stumble Upon breaks the habit, and throws you out into the universe to discover sites that fit with your specified interests. User rankings also strengthen the system. Of course you also get sent to some sites that are less than amazing, but with a few hours of stumbling, you’ll have enough interesting sites bookmarked to spend the next month looking at. Truly inspiring stuff.
… should just add that it doesn’t look as though many people bookmarked me! Mind you I’m not trying so very hard
I should be grateful – here’s the google analytics graph for my blog hits over the last year. Guess when I was “stumbled upon”
http://zurich.dailyphoto.forthmedia.com/dailyphoto/images/dailyphoto_images/analytics.gif
I suppose that’s the beauty of stumble on Richard. These sites are democratically popular, as opposed to just becoming popular somehow. I hate “popular” sites like Facebook and flickr and my space, but within the narrow confines of your selected interests, and backed up by the approval or disapproval of the stumble on community, a lot of good interesting pages pop up. They may never become really popular, but they are interesting and even better, you would never have found them otherwise.
That’s a good point Geoff. I often tend to avoid sites that are “popular” just because of some cussedness in me, but you are right – I get bogged down in a routine