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My favorite thing about StumbleUpon traffic is that for the most part it is directed traffic. When you register on SU, you select topics that you’re interested in. If you click the stumble button and visit a new site, you are taken to a site that fits one of the topics you’ve chosen.

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An online multi-player game that I enjoy playing shows this whenever anyone asks the standard asl (age, sex, location) question. The game, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, is one of the social networks [...]

Sometimes giving a page a thumb up seems to make a big difference. The page you discover and thumb up suddenly makes it to the Buzz and it seems like everyone is looking at it now. Another page that seems just as likely to be popular doesn’t do anything after you thumb it up. What’s going on?

Its fun posting something on SU and having it make the Buzz, StumbleUpon’s listing of the hottest posts in the most popular topics.

This was the first time I’d ever had a post from here get buzzed, and watching the buzz effect behind the scenes (through a stat reader) is nothing short of addicting.

Thanks to a friend who noticed I was getting too caught up in being at the top of the list, and called me on it, I seriously cut back on my SU activity for a while, and when I came back to StumbleUpon, I noticed I was having fun with it again, instead of stressing about always finding good articles to post.

So, here are my top 5 reasons you might not want to push to be Top Stumbler:

Yesterday, Vince Bank, who subscribes to Guy Kawasaki’s tweets on Twitter, complained that Guy was “over-promoting his Truemors site” which prompted Dr. Mani, a friend whose blogs I really enjoy (and learn a lot from), to ask this question, “What is Twitter to You?”

Here is a rather neat idea that I’d never thought of before. Did you know that you can set up your StumbleUpon page on Technorati? When you sign up on Technorati, they ask you to insert a piece of code into one of your blog posts…and then after the blog is set up, you can remove it (which is nice when you find that a website you thumbed up two days ago isn’t available anymore).

Today, I want to tell you about an add-on that I use all the time with StumbleUpon. It’s called CleanSUBeta and was written by Furman87 (http://furman87.stumbleupon.com).

When you make a post on StumbleUpon, you’re not stuck just using the default plain-text look. SU allows you to use some HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to change the look of your posts. Today, we’ll look at the HTML that you can use, and what it does.

I just finished reading an article by Dr. Mani titled “Building Relationships Using Digital Tools“. He mentions several online resources, including at least one that I need to look more into (”With a memory like mine, I say a regular prayer of thanks for reminder services and autoresponders. Do these reminders salvage, even deepen, relationships? [...]