My mom step-sister just sent me a “Palmer for President” bumper sticker and a “Counter Terrorist Unit / USA” coffee mug.  If you don’t get the reference, you need to start watching 24.

NewsGator and Factiva announced a partnership today.  As part of this, Factiva customers (and there are a lot of them) will be able to transform their existing “Factiva Track Folders” into RSS feeds and view them via a NewsGator Business Subscription.  Also – all NewsGator premium subscribers will start receiving Factiva’s Editor’s Choice Feeds. 

If you don’t know of Factiva, they are a Dow Jones & Reuters Company that provides content from over 9,000 sources, including Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. NewsGator has a long series of partnerships like this queued up – more coming soon.

I’ve been reading Friedman’s The World Is Flat but I keep getting distracted by mental floss as all of my favorite writers release their summer junk. I got sucked into Stuart Woods’ Two Dollar Bill on a flight home on Friday; today it was Robert Parker’s latest Spenser (and Hawk) novel Cold Service.

I like Spenser, I adore Susan, but I want to come back as Hawk in another life (combining Hawk, Jack Bauer, and Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar would be sweet.)  Cold Service is way more about Hawk than about Spenser, which is fun for a change.  Denver to Seattle and back equals one book and it was fun.  Time to go brush my teeth, eat my Wheaties, and finish off The World Is Flat.