I am going to take you back to a simpler time. A time before all the madness, and chicanery that took place on StumbleUpon. The date was roughly three weeks ago, let’s call it, Friday, July 13th (just to keep everything dramatic). An intrepid web surfer named izface had seen a high school teacher named Taylor Mali on television. She dug what she saw of him then found a video clip of him chilling unseen on our video page.

This clip was something I had never encountered, known about, or even dreamt of, but it was one of those rare clips that moves you. A man with something to say, saying it passionately and eloquently, and jabbing at the jugular of greed.

Check it out… I like it (there’s my obvious statement of the week)

So okay, young izface finds this video on our site and she adds it to her StumbleUpon page and low and behold the buzz begins. You see, that’s just how it happens in these web parts. You start with a piece of content. It can be stupid, it can be genius, it can be stupid genius. It can be inane and sticky, or plush and gooey, it can be medium rare. (I prefer my content with milk and two Splendas, but that’s just me.)

So you start with that piece of content, then you talk about it and very soon you get this. A downright hive of buzzing. A veritable juggernaut of chat.Everyone’s checking out the content and adding their two cents.

And that’s what we want you all to do. Search us. Search us like you were a DEA agent vacationing in Columbia. Then, when you find the nuggets of gold, push them out to the world. Through your blogs, your phones, your address books, you can even do interpretive mime performances of the content.

(btw we are developing a Send-To-Mime feature, beta will launch in Oct. It’s gonna be ground breaking. Very quiet ground breaking of course.)

So kudos to Taylor, izface, and all y’all who care.
Heace in the Piddle Beast

-Captain Cellfish
Duchess of Newark