A post of mine about synopses was Stumbled by a popular user this week. The impact was the largest my site has seen since its makeover three months ago: 86 hits in a single hour, over 60 of them in that hour from StumbleUpon alone. I’ve got some new subscribers to my site feed as well.
And that’s nowhere near the largest Stumble effects other sites have seen.
How did it happen?
I sat back and scratched my head for a bit, and came up with the following four principles. They all come back to the theory of unique content, but that’s not quite all there is to it.
And for those of you who don’t know what social bookmarking is, I’ve included an introduction to this phenom of phenomenon.
Spontaneous ∂erivation 