StumbleUpon was something I played with over 2 years ago. I really like they way it seemed to bring a greater sense of serendipity to my learning. I discovered some really cool things. Not sure why I left it but I rediscovered it a few days ago and have already found some neat stuff. Here’s a sampling:
- Four Hands Guitar….I thought of Darren and Ewan and some of their presentations…I might use it as well.
- 52 Influential Photographs
- Death Clock…good thing I’m an optimistic…I’ll live till I’m 94.
- SkreemR.…The World’s Greatest Audio Search
The second old friend returning is ScribeFire, formally known as Performancing. ScribeFire is a blog editor built right into your browser. The reason I’m using it is because of my frustrations in finding a suitable WYSIWYG editor for WordPress that allows embedding of video and won’t conflict with other plugins. So for fun I’m going to embed the youtube version of the four hands guitar video.
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Ahhh, I “stumbled upon” Stumble Upon somewhere about a year ago, and it definitely has helped me through a few boring spells. Granted, it’s pretty far from true, directed searching but I’ve gotten dozens of links that I’d never trade for anything now! And I have shared it w/ a lot of friends who seem to think similarly. I always claim that browser window “real estate” is precious, and I *HATE* to give up any of that real estate to the dozens of invasive toolbars that do no good whatsoever (as an aside, how has Google gotten their toolbar to be installed by default on EVERY piece of freeware that I install on every computer in our school?!?!). But I was, and still am, willing to give up that extra quarter-inch at the top of my browser for the StumbleUpon bar!