I have been using and abusing the StumbleUpon Toolbar for Firefox addon for quite some time, but color me stupid: it never occurred to me to stumble my own blogposts. This morning, however, I had a message from another stumbler: He had reviewed my “Oh look! Kitteh! post, and hoped that it would result in a bit of traffic for me.
I’d say that’s a “yes”, wouldn’t you? (And for You People who Live For Stats – that graph doesn’t include feeds served.)
There is, however, a distinct downside to this effect. Although my “world map” view is full of dots from here to New Zealand in the last 24 hours, there don’t seem to be many reviews of the post (unless I’m totally looking in the wrong place.). This means that people have FOUND it but aren’t giving it the thumbs up/down. Since SU is essentially a viral web app, not having reviews means the page won’t be perpetuated. Since it’s a fluff quiz post my heart isn’t broken, but I would truly be upset that a post I’d poured my heart and soul into just stopped.
And another thought occurred as I was writing this. Once I find a blog I like, I add it to my google reader page – and never give SU ratings another thought. This bothers me, and I do believe that since I’m stuck on the sofa ANYWAY, I’ll be going back through my reader archives, rating posts. There really should be a way to rate posts through the feed…
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