The Venture Skills Blog

Welcome to another edition of the almost seedy Stumbling Voyeur a dirty dark look at the stumbling habits of the rich and famous, but due to legal reasons we couldn’t post so you will have to make do with some of most well known bloggers as before our volunteers (in the looses sense) will have their dirty laundry on display for all to see.

You can see our previous victims (volunteers) in the first stumbling voyeur. Please don’t worry no cats were harmed during the writing of this post.

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What’s it all about: One of the great new features of stumbleupon is to make it easier to stumble through other people stumbles, so you can see what they liked either websites, photos or videos, so with that Knowledge what happens next is self explanatory.

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Engtech/Ninetimessix

Technologist and blogger of Internet Duck tape one of the most popular blogs on wordpress.com. Engtech has been using stumbleupon for just over 10 months and has amassed an interesting collection. Lets see what we can find.

• H2O is a dangerous chemical - any one for banning “dihydrogen monoxide” no one reading this blog would fall for such things I’m sure
• Cthulhu: Eater of Souls, Roaster of Dogs - I was going to declare a man of great literary taste Engtech is but alas this article is not on the works of Lovecraft but well sausages!
• 2D to 3D Alchemy: Teaching Geometric Context to Dumbass Machines - Interesting video on researchers efforts to convert 2d images into 3d images.
• electronic projects - Interesting set of project you know its good when a Tesla coil is involved takes me back to my Technician days.
• 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written - Interesting list of books by title but is it your top 100?

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Maki/Autorave

Writer of the highly successful Blog Dosh Dosh providing monetizing tips for web sites and has written a fantastic guide to using stumbleupon and has been using Stumbleupon since January this year.

• Presenting financials to venture capitalists - Interesting and indepth look at dealing with venture capitalists.
• Green Options - Climate change myth busting and some great tips for making your life green.
• How to Create Your Own Direct Advertising Sales Package - Nice article part of a series on dosh dosh.
• XAJAX PHP Live Datagrid / Gridview - ajax/php tutorial
• Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duckie - hmm a rubber duck!

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Alister Cameron

Australian blogging consultant and blogger himself his blog alistercameron.com is a Mecca for would be blogging professionals, a long term member of stumbleupon having joined way back in 2005.

• Web pro News Author info - hmm a strange one really a bit of vanity but could be useful for brand building, I tend to think such stumbles won’t do well though
• I follow - Information about the I follow or do follow movement amongst bloggers
• Novell Linux vs MAC vs PC Videos - Apple being spoofing is the ultimate form of flattery honest.
• 5 Blogs that make me think - Is your blog there?
• 4 Secrets to Becoming a Digg Frontpage Regular - great general article on getting to the front page of Digg

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Serious Point

Ok So its a fun post but it has a serious message, your on-life is there its easy to track, its easy to check on, have you stumbled something you shouldn’t have? If you have changed your profile to R or X rated viewing are you sure you know what category your thumbs up are going?.

In todays culture how long will it be before a teacher is accused of being of looking at indecent images because his students looked at their stumbles?
If you have a public image or persona remember what ever social network you use to take care to maintain the image you are creating.

So today’s moral is: Don’t be an ass with that thumb.

One final thing

The Final link but which of our volunteers gave it the thumbs up? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4332830819848713435
if you liked this post then send it to a friend or two happy stumbling.