Cool: XMarks ranks AmP as the top catholic blog!

An AmP reader writes:

"AMP is ranked as #1 in the category "Catholic Blogs" on XMarks.com, an intuitive web site based on people's bookmarks and how often sites are mentioned on other web sites such as "Twitter" and blogs. It also uses other variables for ranking sites."

I'm happy to see AmP doing well in this metric. Without getting into which Catholic blog is "best" (AmP certainly isn't the most popular Catholic blog), I'm happy to see the top 10 list populated completely with Catholic blogs I consider to be deserving of the high placement.

I also like that this XMarks website takes account of the very active parallel AmP communities on Facebook (almost 2,500 folks) and Twitter (almost 2,000 followers).

I recently asked the AmP Facebook community how often they visit the "physical" AmP blog and was surprised to find out that most of them access and interact with AmP stories only within the Facebook website. AmP Twitter followers are also more likely to keep up on my news beat primarily on their cell phones and blackberries.

Which is all fine by me, because it's the "message", not the medium, that is ultimately important.