Regarding syndication: Many of you already follow marthaandtom.com by RSS using our “subscribe” link to the site’s feed at the top of the page. If that’s you, thanks for reading! We love to hear from new readers and to see the subscriptions grow. Tom and I have also been using Twitter for a while (twitter.com/marthaandtom), but we haven’t been super consistent about tweeting links to new posts. Currently, I’m working on ways to better syndicate our site via Twitter. The solution? Tiny robots! Tiny robots, that is, working hard for a service called twt.sy (http://twt.sy) created by our friend Peter. I’m also plugging along in an attempt to create our own shortened URLs.

All of this is great for those of you familiar with RSS and Twitter, but I’ve been wondering… would any of our readers be interested in subscribing to (old-fashioned?) updates via email? This isn’t something we’ve made available at this point but I imagine I might be able to employ Tom to figure out the technical bits if we know there’s a demand. Let us know in the comments, and enjoy the weekend!

I miss my Dwell Magazine. I thought that by renewing our Walker membership in February I would automatically get my subscription extended (my last issues was December/January), as complimentary subscriptions to Dwell are a brand new membership benefit. Here I am and it’s nearly April… STILL NO Dwell. Seeing Tom’s Cook’s Illustrated come yesterday caused a twinge of jealousy, so I broke down and called customer service. I was originally planning to just inquire about the status of my subscription; then they told me it could take “120 days” before any word from the Walker reached them. 120 days sounded like a really long time. Do you think they’re trained to say things like that? That is, to make me feel like that? Anyway you know what happened; I renewed. I even asked them for the back issues that I missed. I even paid the news stand price for one. I was a little desperate, I guess. Tom chuckled a little at this, but not wanting to suffer saver’s remorse, I decided to say, “why not?!”