As a human beings we all have a tendency of taking breaks from our routine jobs, which is good. How to discriminate a break from a blogging blackout?

Blogging blackouts are the periods of time where some unknown force keeps you away from blogging. These stretches of time find you allergic to the keyboard particularly updating your blog. You suddenly don’t have much to say, this temporary liking of yours for real-life interaction outweighs the desire to write and eventually while online you keep busy yourself elsewhere in social media or news. They come to you in small unannounced fits; even you are unaware they are about to occur. Has is it ever happened to you?

In any relationship either you maintain that relation or you simply break it up. There is no space available for the relation where you neither keep your relation and nor break it down. If this is the situation then your partner is in the most annoyed situation. Have you broken up with your blog or kept it in the dilemmatic state where it is simply waiting for you to come one day and has no future? Generally what happens is in most cases, the boyfriend or girlfriend will just move on to another partner. But if I am getting tired of blogging, where should I move on to? Do I have a better option?

I love this badge on indiblogger. Irrespective of the fact that you update your blog or not you just open it once for a while to check any comments. How would you feel when you find that your domain has expired? Something similar happened to me as the email registered with domain controller is the one which I seldom check. So one of the lessons is that keep your email which you daily check. Thanks Lord it was not high time and I was able to rescue my domain. To see a parked page on your lovely blogs URL is one of the most dreadful and shocking experiences to any blogger.

As I have already quoted in my previous posts, blogging frequently is not a limitation but is surely a necessary evil since when you have regular readers, rather your loyal readers. They just pop in for interesting content from you. And if blogging every day is going to maximize my ROI, in terms of satisfied “content readers”, then I’ll probably love ending up blogging more than once in day.

In my case it might be my work hangover, but I think these periods are happening with greater frequency, and I’m not sure what to make of it. I can only compare it to a kind of breakup with your some old relation to whom you are not sure about that what exactly to do. So how’s your blog dating going? Please tell me I’m sure that I am not the only one with trouble in the world.

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Some of you might need to show off your blogs using website thumbnails and have wanted to know how to do this on your own blogs. Website thumbnails can actually help boost a website's income by increasing conversions. They are ideal for web directories, search engines, web designers, Research and studies of user behavior show that the use of site thumbnails improve searches, increases repeat visits, and increases click through rates. It is a proven fact that users are more likely to click on search results that display thumbnail images.

You can use ShrinkTheWeb to automate the capture of website previews, which saved us quite a bit of development time. By integrating with ShrinkTheWeb's API, all we need to do is copy and paste the code to get the system up and running within hours and, since we cache all of their images locally, we are able to deliver them faster.

It offers you following sizes in its free service:

Micro 75x56

Tiny 90x75

V Small 100x75

Small 120x90

Large 200x150

X-Large 320x240

The ShrinkTheWeb Thumbnail Service is free for a majority (99%) of webmasters and designers to use. You can refresh upto 5 screenshots per month using the BASIC Free Service. I’ve been very happy with the service so far. If you are looking to integrate website previews into your site, you may want to check it out.

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Social website Phitter has been launched by Actress Kirstie Alley it offers a community in which to talk about fitness, health and diet. It’s built on a Twitter-like interface allowing “Phits” of 140 characters or less.

Phitter is a PHitness PHocused micro-blogging community and gift from Kirstie Alley to enable and encourage talk or "PHit" about fitness. Kirstie wants all of us to use Phitter to better yourselves, your health and well being.

Throw your first PHIT! Share what you know about fitness, wellness, weight loss, diet, healthy food tips, stores, markets, online sites, and whatever, share great links others should know about, and be sure to mention Phitter to your phriends who are on the fitness and weight loss journey as well! Come on, build a Phitter phamily with us and don't forget to have PHUN!

When you register for an account at Phitter, (It's super Phast, really!), you can post small (140 chars or less), text notices about yourself, your experiences with fitness and diet, what you're doing, health tips, recipe, or cooking tips, workout techniques or gym fashion, which gyms you like, don't like, or practically anything you want and ESPECIALLY if its about fitness, healthy living, working out, wellness, weight loss or diet.

What a phit!

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Make the most of your messages on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites. The advent of Twitter and other social networking sites, as well as the popularity of text messaging, have made short-form communication an everyday reality. But expressing yourself clearly in short bursts-particularly in the 140-character limit of Twitter-takes special writing skill.

Twitter co-creator Dom Sagolla, recently wrote a book 140 Characters It is a style guide for the short form writing, and a concise field manual that will help you be more effective when communicating in small spaces, like on Twitter, available for iPhone & iPod touch.

The book comes with a companion iPhone application developed by Sagolla’s company, DollarApp. The application lets you read the book on your iPhone, as well as a comment on the book via Twitter.

Apple has featured 140 Characters as the number two New and Noteworthy App in iTunes! Additionally, the App is shown as the first icon in the App Store.

In 140 Characters, Sagolla covers all the basics of great short-form writing, including the importance of communicating with simplicity, honesty, and humor. For marketers and business owners, social media is an increasingly important avenue for promoting a business-this is the first writing guide specifically dedicated to communicating with the succinctness and clarity that the Internet age demands.

The book covers basic grammar rules for short-form writing. The equivalent of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for today’s social media-driven marketing messages. Helps you develop your own unique short-form writing style.

140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form

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All of us some dreams to fulfil some day. You might have resolved to gain wealth, lose weight, earn a degree, or buy a better mobile device. We share them with Friends and the community or keep them private. Good for you but we all know how well most new year's resolutions go. In fact we need a step-by-step [Dream - Plan - Achieve] plans for achievement.

As they say strike while iron is hot

mySomeday is a new tool for solidifying, planning and executing your dreams into realities. The site's a little bit like Dorthy.com and a little like LetSimonDecide, but it's also got simple project management tools and interesting social features. Could mySomeday actually help us stick to our resolutions?

Calling itself a "goal achievement platform," mySomeday combines planning tools, social
networking features and a support community. It makes sense that publicly sharing goals with one's network has a positive impact on one's chances of reaching those goals. Also, hacking a dream into a plan with a series of steps and measurable outcomes can help transform a cloud-castle into a reality.

It is a decision-making platform that helps users analyze their dreams or wishes to determine if they're optimal, practical and advisable. Once the decision-making process is complete, users can share their conclusions with other site members and make an action plan to implement the decision.

On mySomeday, users are prompted to set deadlines and receive email reminders, but one of the most interesting features is the option to add multimedia inspirational content, including pictures and videos. Visual reminders have powerful effects - much more than mere words on a glowing screen would, we suspect.

Sharing your Someday will let your family and friends know what you’re trying to achieve and give you support. Just click the ‘Share’ button on your Someday page and broadcast your intentions.

Here are four things that will greatly increase your chances of success.

Build a Plan for your Someday

FACT: Someday plans break down big goals into actionable steps. Users with plans are astonishingly more likely to achieve their goals. You’re more likely to get feedback and the simple process of jotting down steps will actually create momentum. We guarantee it!

Set Reminders for the Steps of your Plan

FACT: You’re more likely to stay on schedule and take action if you set up email reminders. You’ll have complete control over your email reminders, and can elect to receive them daily, weekly or monthly. And you can always undo Reminders with the click of a button.

Show off your progress

FACT: Doers are way more attractive than sayers. Next to each Step in a Plan lives a little red button. Click it and in addition to magically turning green, it adjusts your progress meter and broadcasts your progress to your Supporters so they can cheer you on.

Share your Someday

As part of their business model, mySomeday is offering branded "Expert Plans" for common or niche goals. Currently, Expert Plans are being offered by Seeds of Peace, Flirtexting, BK Farmyards and Nuru International.

Would the imagery, reminders and unique Expert Plans model help you achieve your goals? Over to you...

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Looking back in 2009. Twitter has given so many people a new voice in the last year, that to ignore what it has to say would be amiss. WhatTheTrend has compiled a list of the very top Twitter trends of the year, telling us what we all talked about the most. A few people have tried to do similar things, but no other list is as complete and detailed as this one.

Google Wave of course quite popular new internet service from Google, allowing real time collaboration and communication. When the first 100,000 invites were released, people clamored to be let in. All the first people into the beta were given a handful of invites to share. Still, I would guesstimate that half the tweets on Google Wave were broken in two between people trying to get in by begging, and people lost as hell once they got there.

Michael Jackson also kept trending. When MJ bought the farm, or perhaps sold the ranch, the whole world melted down instantly. People from around the nation, and the world all felt the loss sharply. Tweets surrounding his death, the rumors of the causes behind it, his hidden drug addiction, his funeral, and the movie following his death swirled around the internet for weeks. Want to know how big a star Michael was? He was the third most popular topic on Twitter, all year.

#musicmonday. Given that Twitter is all about sharing, it is hardly surprising that one of the top discussions was around sharing what we are listening to. Twitter has grown up from a lifestreaming service, to a wonderful mix of news, opinion, and discussion. But still, we love to share what we are doing. #musicmonday is not going anywhere.

Number one trend of the year: #iranelection. The unrest in Iran following the stolen election made Twitter buckle under the weight of millions of people tweeting about the protests and violence. It spawned a second wave of action, with millions more on Twitter dying the profiles green in a sign of solidarity with the Iranian protesters.

As per twitter blog we have following list.

News Events
1. #iranelection
2. Swine Flu
3. Gaza
4. Iran
5. Tehran
6. #swineflu
7. AIG
8. #uksnow
9. Earth Hour
10. #inaug09

People
1. Michael Jackson
2. Susan Boyle
3. Adam Lambert
4. Kobe (Bryant)
5. Chris Brown
6. Chuck Norris
7. Joe Wilson
8. Tiger Woods
9. Christian Bale
10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)

Movies
1. Harry Potter
2. New Moon
3. District 9
4. Paranormal Activity
5. Star Trek
6. True Blood
7. Transformers 2
8. Watchmen
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. G.I. Joe

TV Shows
1. American Idol
2. Glee
3. Teen Choice Awards
4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)
5. Dollhouse
6. Grey’s Anatomy
7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)
8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)
9. BET Awards
10. Lost

Sports (Teams, Events, Leagues)
1. Super Bowl
2. Lakers
3. Wimbledon
4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)
5. Superbowl
6. Chelsea
7. NFL
8. UFC 100
9. Yankees
10. Liverpool

Technology
1. Google Wave
2. Snow Leopard
3. Tweetdeck
4. Windows 7
5. CES
6. Palm Pre
7. Google Latitude
8. #E3
9. #amazonfail
10. Macworld

Hash Tags
1. #musicmonday
2. #iranelection
3. #sxsw
4. #swineflu
5. #nevertrust
6. #mm
7. #rememberwhen
8. #3drunkwords
9. #unacceptable
10. #iwish

Learn more about Major Twitter Trends for 2009 here...