Am out of town and can't get laptop to cooperate. Will be back late tonight or early tomorrow morning.

I've resisted Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and countless other social networking endeavors, but I've succumbed to Twitter. If you're on Twitter, you can follow me here. I'll be posting links to all the articles that appear on the blog, but will also post about the fragrances I'm testing, late breaking sales and news items, and so on.

If you don't know Twitter, you can read the Twitter entry at Wikipedia or see What is Twitter, and is there any reason I should care? at The Guardian.

Update: since many people assume a kind of “follow-me-I'll-follow-you” policy at Twitter, I should have mentioned that I'm not planning to follow everyone who follows me…

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Earlier this year, I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader, and so didn't notice until yesterday when I happened to be at Bloglines that my feed isn't working properly there...from what I can tell, any post that doesn't include an image is displaying the post title only, with no excerpt. The feed is working properly at Google Reader. If anyone has had problems with the Now Smell This feed using any other news aggregator, please let me know!

I'm very pleased to announce that we'll be adding two new voices to Now Smell This in the coming weeks. Both of them are bloggers you might already know:

Lucy of Indieperfumes is going to be writing about home fragrances, scented body products and do-it-yourself fragrance projects. Look for her first article, on Annick Goutal's Petite Cherie candle, tomorrow.

Next month, Erin of Emergency Backpack will start a monthly feature called "Five Perfumes". Each month, expect a topical list of five perfumes for something or another. As Erin notes, "There's nothing more fun than agreeing with or fuming over a list - except making one yourself".