Walt has started live Twitter reports from the Rockwell Automation China event. If you're not following @waltboyes on Twitter, why not? Twitter is free, easy, and will give you first-hand information about all manner of things. Trust me. I wouldn't stay up past my bedtime to tell you this if it wasn't true. Start your Twitter adventure with @waltboyes, @keithlarson, @controlglobal.com and @nancybartels. And there are many more interesting and exciting people (in process automation, not just lame movie stars) to follow.  

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The 2010 Control salary survey will be closing in six days. Here's your chance to weigh in on conditions in your corner of the process automation business. Fill out the survey here. The results will appear in our June issue.

Wireless Ethernet: Ready for Industrial PrimetimeWireless can today lay claim to perhaps the fastest uptake of any “new” instrumentation technology in the industrial marketplace. Wireless Ethernet, broadly encompassing standard and proprietary variants of 802.11 and 802.15.4 wireless protocols, are being successfully deployed to solve a broad and growing range of industrial problems from process control to environmental monitoring.

My colleague and good bud Katherine Bonfante, our managing editor of all things digital, has been slaving over a hot computer all day. Result? A delicious collection of Control podcasts that you can download to your iPod for free from the iTunes store. Check 'em out here.