Just wanted to take a minute to give thanks for one of my favorite resources in the blogging world.  I don’t know if all bloggers regularly run into a lack of inspiration, but I sure do!

From the first week I started blogging, I figured out that one of the best ways to overcome creative blocks was to read other blogs. You can really learn a lot, get ideas and even better use trackbacks to respond to other people’s brilliant or not so brilliant posts and end up with some great posts on your own blog.

So I was constantly finding new ways to search for inspiring blogs and would run into dead ends.  I then started looking at all the social bookmarking sites and figuring out how to best utilize them.

Enter StumbleUpon.

I’ve found this nifty little tool extremely helpful.  It’s a bit like using Google’s I feel lucky option.  It has a great Firefox (and probably IE, I’m not sure) toolbar addon.  And whenever I have a few minutes, I just start stumbling around!

This recommendation does, however, come with a warning.  If you’ve ever become addicted to virtual solitaire or Myspace, be careful!  You can find yourself stumbling around for hours without realizing it!

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