WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs en Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 growthmadness on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs/page/2#post-77181 Wed, 09 May 2007 22:57:18 +0000 growthmadness 77181@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What *really* works well is finding a niche social voting site, IE: one that is related to whatever topic the blog post is about.

Anyone know off hand how a few of them would be categorized in this regard? Raincoaster touched on the strengths of Digg and Reddit. Are there any others that emphasize social or even specifically environmental stories?

]]> defrostindoors on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72534 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:02:40 +0000 defrostindoors 72534@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Google is creating a rival to SU

I did happen across a site which works like digg or reddit, only it's for horse news only. Unfortunately it's not in English. :P

]]> engtech on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72310 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:29:12 +0000 engtech 72310@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Created a greasemonkey script so you can go to a random post on any blog

]]> engtech on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72168 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:43:07 +0000 engtech 72168@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ new stealth wordpress.com feature -- stumbling within your OWN blog

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72055 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:11:31 +0000 raincoaster 72055@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's good. If all else fails, positivity-wise, just remember that most of those climate deniers live south of you and will learn soon enough as their Florida condos become Florida fishtanks.

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72050 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:44:00 +0000 timethief 72050@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't expect anything in return. Right now I'm really struggling with my vision, with my blogging motivation and with depression. Committing to another year of blogging about the environment when all there is to report is ignorance, inertia, corporate greed and political immobility is more than I can do. If I hear one more climate denier make one more conspiracy theory accusation backed by junk science I may have to be carried off to the nuthouse in a straitjacket.

Millions of people and hundreds of thousands of species are going to die as earth burns due to climate change and our reluctance to take swift and effective action to change, mitigate and adapt to it. It's already begun.

Today on the eve of Earth Day I posted an "I'm on vacation for 2 weeks post" on my environmental blog and exported the contents to my own computer. In fact I do not intend to continue with it. Instead I intend to focus on my new personal blog for which I purchased a domain. In it I will blog about some of the enjoyable, meaningful and uplifting parts of my life.

OOWWWooww ooowwwoooooo!

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72048 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:33:33 +0000 raincoaster 72048@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks: I and my 500 new readers salute you! I wondered who'd stumbled that. Someone also stumbled my post on Kimveer Gill's blog. Although I didn't even go near the internet yesterday, I still had my fifth-highest day! Thanks again; I'd repay the favour, but I can't run stumble on this damn machine.

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72047 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:32:19 +0000 timethief 72047@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @disembedded
I stumbled your powerful and insightful post too - Cho Sueng-Hui: Asperger’s Disorder with Psychotic Features.

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-72046 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:21:29 +0000 timethief 72046@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster
Today I stumbled your post on "the wall" that the US started building under the cover of darkness between the the Sunnis and Shiites in Baghdad.

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71975 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:41:53 +0000 raincoaster 71975@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Digg is good for techie stuff. Reddit is much better for thought-provoking social or political stories.

]]> poppy8sd on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71947 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:21:19 +0000 poppy8sd 71947@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Engtech & Co for (new to me) recommendation. Usually if I can't read something I'm unfamiliar with without 'sign-up'/join, I won't but I trust you. But: it won't let me sign up, it requires Win2000 and up. Oh well. How's the kitten?

]]> engtech on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71853 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:55:30 +0000 engtech 71853@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What *really* works well is finding a niche social voting site, IE: one that is related to whatever topic the blog post is about. They won't drive as much traffic, but it is much better traffic than something big like Digg.

]]> defrostindoors on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71846 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:03:31 +0000 defrostindoors 71846@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Digg is full of jerks; reddit is much better, even though everything I submit gets downvoted within the hour.

If anyone wants to add me to their SU list, my SU name is samoboe.

]]> nosysnoop on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71809 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:01:34 +0000 nosysnoop 71809@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've just been looking into Digg and Reddit.

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71607 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:41:41 +0000 raincoaster 71607@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the stumble. It seriously paid off. It is especially valuable if you've got a story that is newsy RIGHT THIS MINUTE, because Stumble is in realtime, not like Fark that people check maybe once a day or a couple of times.

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71603 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:41:54 +0000 timethief 71603@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ /nod to engtech
I couldn't resist doing another one. There's such great stuff in your blog.

@everyone
If anyone has a post that they did a lot of work on and feel it should be stumbled please don't be shy. I'm very accommodating. :)

]]> engtech on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71568 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:20:40 +0000 engtech 71568@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ah, thanks for the info about the second link. It is the correct link, but they've blocked it unless you're coming from the first link.

If you click on the first link it's in the second row on the left.

thanks for the stumbles TT, I noticed them. :)

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71538 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:02:07 +0000 timethief 71538@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're both welcome. :)

]]> disembedded on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71530 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:30:58 +0000 disembedded 71530@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks timethief!

]]> carocat on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71528 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:28:51 +0000 carocat 71528@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Timethief. I appreciate it. :)

It's been a while since I stumbled, might have to do it again, especially now that it's possible to navigate just wp.com blogs, something I didn't think was possible.

I might have to stumble. After blogging though. :)

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71478 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:42:46 +0000 timethief 71478@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well that I can't do the Growing Blog bbq bribe thingee but I did stumble your Virginia Tech post. I also stumbled disembedded's Virginia Tech audio post and one for carocat photo/cancer and two of engtech's guest writer's posts and one of Collin's ... I'm off to stumble. :)

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71446 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:22:12 +0000 raincoaster 71446@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, you have to bribe your way onto the Fastest Growing Blogs list. I think it might require bbq.

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71443 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:17:13 +0000 timethief 71443@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ {hint} I have stumbled several wordpress.com blog posts this month.

You don't have to "bribe" your way onto it. A stumbleupon member simply has to freely choose to review one of your posts and "stumble" it.

{hint} You could choose to become a stumbleupon member.

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71428 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:18:05 +0000 raincoaster 71428@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That takes a lot. I went from 1900 hits to 6900 over three days and STILL didn't make that bloody list. I think you have to bribe your way onto it.

]]> carocat on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71424 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:47:56 +0000 carocat 71424@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ One of my posts got stumbled by someone ages back and I got close to 1500 hits from StumbleUpon alone on it. Even made it into the 'upcoming Blogs'. :)

]]> raincoaster on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71421 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:38:55 +0000 raincoaster 71421@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Stumble is very, very powerful. I got almost 700 hits today so far from Stumble.

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71410 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:15:03 +0000 timethief 71410@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I frequently use stumbleupon to review and "stumble" posts that I think are deserving of a wider audience. I rarely use it for web surfing.

If you see stumbleupon as a referrer on your stats page it means a stumbleupon member like me has reviewed your post and stumbled it. Having a post reviewed and "stumbled" sends you lots of hits.

]]> carocat on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71382 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:02:37 +0000 carocat 71382@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ooh, I didn't know about that, but I haven't stumbled in ages.

Thanks.

And welcome back, as TT said. :)

]]> katm on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71347 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:10:01 +0000 katm 71347@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh neat.

I like stupmbleupon and click away when I'm bored (and out of books/magazines to read).

]]> timethief on "Stumbling through wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stumbling-through-wordpresscom-blogs#post-71295 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:40:51 +0000 timethief 71295@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Welcome back. I use stumbleupon frequently. The second link you posted above leads me to a blank page.

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