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At first I was convinced that my site counter had screwed up and the 560 viewers my blog got yesterday was a glitch, as this is a big increase from the 3 to 7 I usually get. A little investigation through my FeedBurner stats shows that the visits are real and everyone is coming from StumbleUpon.com, where my blog currently on the top of their blog buzz list. I’d never heard of StumbleUpon, so when I saw this, I thought I was stuck in some weird spam site that could ID me and make me think my site was at the top of their list…but the paranoia subsided when I saw that, according to TechCrunch, StumbleUpon is legit and has 1.65 million members in 139 countries who “stumble” 4 million sites per day, much like Digg and Reddit. Apparently intelligrad saw my blog, liked it, and submitted it to StumbleUpon for other people to see. Thanks, and I hope all you Stumblers stick around!