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Mitch Canter

I has an Alltop Listing!!

CMDR Mitchcraft

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I got the awesome news today via email:

We recently added your site to Alltop (http://wordpress.alltop.com/). Alltop is an “online magazine rack” that aggregates RSS feeds about popular topics.

If you don’t know what Alltop is, it was created by Guy Kawasaki to aggregate the “egos” of certain topics (Fashion, WordPress, Venture Capitalists, etc).  Your site gets reviewed before it is included, and upon inclusion gets aggregated onto a page that works like, well, a magazine rack!  Makes it really easy to find great posts on whatever topic you want.

And, lo and behold, there I am!  Right in the middle on the bottom of the list (i cut a lot of them out in the picture above, hence the double lines).  That, and I wanted to be near Lorelle and Matt themselves – what can I say, right?

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