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All About Alltop and Why You Should Be On It
Have you heard about Alltop?
Through the magic of Twitter, I have been seeing the term floated around for several months, but now I have a very good reason to tell you more about it:
I’m now listed on Alltop Expats!
OK, so what is Alltop?
Alltop’s homepage says it’s “an ‘online magazine rack’ of popular topics”–439 popular topics to be exact. Founder Guy Kawasaki describes it as “aggregation without the aggravation” with a “goal is to satisfy the information needs of the 99% of Internet users who will never use an RSS feed reader or create a custom page.”
Basically you browse Alltop by category or alphabetically if you have extra time on your hands, find what you like, click, and end up with all the top stories on a given subject via the RSS feeds from selected sites.
So, for example, if you were interested in, say, expatriate life, you’d go to
for “All the Top Expatriate News” and there you would find a collection of expat-related information, including the latest posts from Bleeding Espresso.
Easy peasy!
So go have a look around Alltop; I guarantee you’ll find lots of great new places to visit no matter what your interests are. As if you needed more blogs and websites to read, right? Yes, but this *focuses* your time, and that’s always a good thing.
Have you heard of or used Alltop? What do you think?
Fried Baccala’ and Baccala’ with Tomatoes
Baccalà is a very versatile fish and can be prepared many ways, including in the oven with potatoes, but our favorites are fried (baccalà fritto) and with tomatoes and pasta (baccalà con pomodori). Both are relatively fast (once you get the fish reconstituted, of course) and definitely easy and delicious.
Read on...Christmas Cookie Recipe: Peanut Butter Cookies
Mom always makes Peanut Butter Blossoms, peanut butter cookies with a Hershey’s Kiss nestled in the center, but the recipe works just as well even if you’re without kisses of the chocolate persuasion.
Read on...love thursday: happy birthday to p and to bleeding espresso
It’s finally here! P is finally entering his 30s! Woohoo!
Sorry, but sometimes being a bit older than your mate wears on you, especially when the first digit of your ages don’t match. Now, finally, after two years of being the only one whose age started with a 3, P has joined me. Happy day, happy day!
And you know what else? Bleeding Espresso turns two years old today! So here are three gorgeous hearts courtesy of aussiegall on Flickr:
One for P, one for Bleeding Espresso, and one for all of you who visit, encourage, and inspire me to keep writing, taking photos, cooking, and smiling (not necessarily in that order). Mwaaaah!
And hey it’s also Santa Barbara‘s day, which I’ve written about here at Italy Magazine.
Happy Love Thursday everyone!
*Remember to enter to win a copy of Who by Fire by Diana Spechler before 12/9!*
NaBloPoMo is a big, fat no-go
It is with deep regret that I announce I won’t be taking part in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) this November. I had been going back and forth on the decision for weeks (yes, it’s that important dammit!), but I just can’t.
Yes, I’ll be busy writing a novel for NaNoWriMo, but what I *will* do for NaBloPoMo is pledge to visit as many blogs participating in NaBloPoMo as possible throughout the month. My blog reading has really slowed in the past few months, and I’d like to use November to get back in touch with *your* blogs–especially if you’re participating in NaBlo.
So, if you’ve signed up, please let me know in the comments or come find me at the NaBlo site here (I don’t think my profile will be erased or anything, will it?)!
And, hey, maybe I’ll commit to doing Pilates every day instead!
What would you commit to doing every day this November?
Michelle Fabio is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer living in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy and savoring simplicity one sip at a time.
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