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As part of my New Year’s resolution to get more organized, I decided to pare down the RSS feeds that I subscribe to and create a “newspaper” that fits my daily needs. To do that, I’m going to delete almost all the feeds that I currently subscribe to, and then look over several of the feed readers, to see which one(s) I like the best.

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:

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).

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

I’ve been tagged to answer 5 easy (?), short questions…and then I get to tag 5 people to answer them. It’s the blogging version of all those “About Me” e-mails that I used to get at least 3 or 4 times a year. The nice thing about the blogging version is that it’s kind of fun to see all the links going backwards and forwards.

I’ve been using Adblock for so long that I don’t even think about it anymore. In fact, the only reason I’m talking about it now is that I’ve been studying the various types of web ads for a project I’m working on. So, I started talking to some friends who use Adsense and various other types of insta-ads on their sites.

While I was talking to them, I discovered something. Several were getting StumbleUpon traffic, but very little of the traffic was turning into sales. It wasn’t until one friend asked me to look at his site and tell me what I thought, that I started to realize what the problem was. I couldn’t see an ad on the whole site. Not one. Checking back over the other sites, I noticed the same “problem.” No ads.