Week 3 - InfoConnect Discovery

Onto the 2nd part of week 3 which entails discovery. I love discovering things so I choose this thinking it would be just the thing for me. And I was right. As soon as I saw that Stumbleupon was one of the tasks I knew I was onto a winner.

If you haven't tried Stumbleupon you simply must give it a go. It is a great way to discover new and interesting sites. When you join you can download a toolbar (can't do this on a work machine though) where you can add sites you like or you can just 'stumble'. When you click the stumble button you will be taken to a random website that is picked from categories that you choose when you join. So you've got a pretty good chance that you're going to like where you go. If you really like it you can click the thumbs up in the toolbar which means it gets stored to your favourites within stumbleupon. Even though we can't donwload the toolbar the Stumbleupon website is really functional and will give you an excellent idea of how it all works.

I've been using Stumbleupon for a few years now and just yesterday I added my 65th discovery - this means I'm the first person to add this to Stumbleupon. Its so widely used that its really hard to find things that haven't already been added so its kind of nice being the first to add things. One of my discoveries has had over 200,000 different people view it on my suggestion - pretty cool huh! Below is one of my discoveries - beautiful horse sculpture made out of driftwood.