This past weekend, I adopted Windows Live Writer as a blog editor to post to my personal and professional blogs.  Now, I can use the same user interface to post to Roller (Discovering Identity), Blogger (Dixon Digest) and WordPress (I Love Freedom).  I really like the way it works with photos and how it handles WordPress Tags.  I sense that I have barely scratched the surface of its potential.  Time will tell.

• Screens of our Lives
  (tags: Zits Mobility Television Laptop OnlineServices)

• Qualcomm Inc.: Smarter Chips to Power SmartBooks (Industry Week)
  "Qualcomm Inc. CEO Paul Jacobs recently told Bloomberg News the makers of a new small computer known as 'smartbooks' will use his company's Snapdragon chip for the new device that's expected to start selling in the next quarter."
  (tags: smartbook qualcomm)
• Sharp intros 5in ARM-based netbook (Register Hardware)
  Sharp launched the PC-Z1 Netwalker, a small netbook based around a 5in display and Ubuntu Linux and an ARM Cortex A8-derived CPU.
  (tags: netbook sharp)
• How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships (WSJ.com)
  "All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. … But there's a danger here, too. If we're not careful, our online interactions can hurt our real-life relationships."
  (tags: socialnetworking socialmedia twitter facebook)

• Quick Wins in Identity Management – Still Alive and Well
  (tags: Identity IdentityManagement DigitalIdentity QuickWins)
• Aegis USA – Identity Appliances
  (tags: AegisUSA Identity Management Digital Appliance)
• FoxNews.com – Device Lets the Tongue See
  "The Wicab BrainPort is a device that takes information gathered by a small digital camera in a pair of glasses and sends it to a 'lollipop' electrode array that sits on your tongue. The device was designed to help people who are blind or who have extremely low vision."
  (tags: vision blind sight Sensor tongue)

• Digital Lifestyle – Nokia announces their first netbook
  Impressive new addition to the netbook genre
  (tags: netbook mobile mobility)
• Silicon.com – Apple finally reveals why some iPhone apps get a 'yes' at the App Store
  "It's been over a year since Apple inaugurated its App Store but it has finally shed some light on how the approval process works."
  (tags: iphone applications appstore itunes)

• YouTube – 8-bit trip – amazing video for legomaniacs everywhere.
  Animated video featuring a plethora of lego structures, celebrating early video games.
  (tags: lego videogame animation stopmotion)

• USATODAY – International Space Station Comes Together: animated time line
  Cool animated model shows the progressive growth of the international space statione from its first module in 1998 through 2008, plus anticipated additions in the future
  (tags: Space spacestation NASA)

• CNN.com – Bolt changing face of athletics forever
  "In the space of just a year, Usain St. Leo Bolt has become one the most recognizable people on the planet."
  (tags: Bolt track Jamaica speed)
• Times Online – Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple
  "Apple Inc is worth around $140 billion. But is it worth anything without Jobs?d"
  (tags: apple iphone SteveJobs Macintosh pixar)
• A Sales Guy – Onliine Presence: Asset of the Future
  "The asset of the future will be your social graph. Have you started investing in it? You should be. Like most assets, the returns are much higher when you get in early."
  (tags: Identity Relationship socialgraph socialnetworking)
• ILoveFreedom.com – Entitlements and Slavery: No Free Lunches
  We must raise our voices in an articulate and resolute war of words to stop the downward spiral of our precious free society into the slavery of government entitlements.
  (tags: Freedom, Liberty, Entitlements, Slavery, Politics, Government)

• Mashable – Twitter to Attach Locations to Your Tweets
  Twitter just announced an upcoming set of features and APIs (application programming interfaces) that will make “Twitter truly location-aware.”
  (tags: twitter LBS LocationBasedServices location)
• Telegraph.co.uk – Chalk in three dimensions: the pavement art of Kurt Wenners
  "Master street artist Kurt Wenner's creations on cobbles and pavements across the world may look like they have been dug into the ground…"
  (tags: art chalk)
• Motley Fool – The iPhone's More Popular Than You Think
  "Feature phones are taking on more of the physical characteristics of smartphones, and often offer greater exposure to carrier services,
  (tags: iphone mobile mobility smartphone)

• Absolute Software – LoJack for Laptops
  "The technology behind Computrace® LoJack® for Laptops by Absolute® Software is the Computrace Agent, a small software client that is embedded into the BIOS firmware of most computers at the factory. Or you can install it yourself."
  "The Agent in your computer maintains daily contact with the Absolute Monitoring Center. If you report your computer stolen, Agent contact will increase to every 15 minutes. Increased contact allows us to obtain specific details like the physical location of your computer, any activity that has occurred post-theft, and other important data that will aid us in working with local law enforcement."
  (tags: security laptop Theft)
• The Onion: Congress Deadlocked Over How To Not Provide Health Care
  "After months of committee meetings and hundreds of hours of heated debate, the United States Congress remained deadlocked this week over the best possible way to deny Americans health care."
  (tags: healthcare politics onion)
• Network World: 8 Dirty Secrets of the IT Security Industry
  "Joshua Corman would seem an unlikely critic of IT security vendors. After all, he works for one. Yet Corman, principal security strategist for IBM's Internet Security Systems division, is speaking out about what he sees as eight trends undermining the ability of IT security practitioners to mount an effective defense against online outlaws. "
  (tags: security InformationSecurity)