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2008 16 Oct

In my last post, I was all excited about the benifits of posting your squidoo lenses on stumbleupon. Well, I should have read Katinka’s lens on how to stumble first, because I’ve tripped the spam filters and am no longer receiving hits from it. I swear I had no intention of being one of those annoying spammers that takes advantage of cool services to only promote thier sites. I think stumble is tons o’ fun. I mean, instant web surfing tailored to your likes? How cool is that?

But, I was like a kid during his first visit to the candy store. I got all carried away and stumbled five of my lenses in the course of two days, and have received a (deserved) slap on the wrist. So, don’t be like me. Have fun on stumble, submit a few of your lenses if you want, but don’t get carried away. Don’t be an unintentional spammer.

2008 12 Oct

Ever since I started out here on squidoo, I’ve heard from the giants that you should post your lenses on places like digg or stumbleupon. So, I finally took a deep breath and gave it a try. I published a lens this afternoon about nerd gear and submitted it to stumbleupon.com. The lens isn’t even live yet, but stumble has already generated 14 views! Yea!

Lesson learned: listen to giant squids when they hand out advice!