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I don’t write a blog post every day for the simple reason that I don’t have something that’s truly inspiring, relevant, and unique to say every day. I think it’s far more important to write what’s important than to simply write something as often as possible.

When I’m not writing, I spend a lot of time reading others’ blogs in my continued efforts to further explore the world and discover the power of design, psychology, neuroscience, marketing, and more. Here are just a few of the places I hit with my browser’s RSS reader each day:

1. Seth Godin’s Blog
2. Notcot
3. Neuromarketing Blog
4. Below The Clouds (It’s in Swedish, but they have a translate button that works quite well)
5. Wired

Of course, aside from the web, I also spend a lot of time at one of the fifty Starbucks in the city reading books about the very same topics. Here’s a quick list of three of my recent favorites:

1. Buyology by Martin Lindstrom
2. Tribes by Seth Godin
3. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Many of you may have noticed that the blog has fallen silent over the past few months. We’ve been hard at work on some top-secret projects that will be part of Foozoo’s 2009 line-up with our new design search engine, Fiazo, already well on its way to success.

The blog will be returning in January with new and daily inspirations in the worlds of design, marketing, behavioral psychology, statistics, and more. We’ll also be brining on a team of guest bloggers to help us keep things fresh and give you something new to read each day.

After thinking about it for a bit, I’ve realized that the world doesn’t need another blog. As of this post, there are millions and millions of blogs out there serving up everything from news on the newest hats to kittens that like popcorn and, of course, politics. For that reason, we’ll be deviating a bit from the standard life of a blog in a number of new and innovative ways that should help us keep things interesting.

We’ve just launched what will be the beginning of our new layout that’s set to launch along with some of our new exclusive content in January. Until then, enjoy the New Year and check out my personal favorite website of the moment, TED.com. We’ll be featuring a number of talks from some truly incredible people via TED throughout the year, but feel free to jump ahead now as most of 2009’s content is already streaming freely from their website.