If you are a 24 fan(atic), you should add 24 Comics to your favorites.

eWeek has long been one of the staples of my bathroom magazine reading habit. Imagine my delight when I saw that the cover story in the latest issue is RSS in the Enterprise. My friends at NewsGator are prominently featured along with case studies from several of their enterprise customers. If you’ve ever wondered why RSS in the enterprise is going to be so important and ubiquitous, this is a great place to start.

The latest episode of Wallstrip is priceless. Lindsey Campbell discusses the titilating products that Limited Brands sells. There’s a special guest appearance by Howard Lindzon (Wallstrip’s creator) at the end that’s a great example of crossover media. I’m enjoying being part of the angel syndicate here – I’m learning a lot and having a great laugh almost every day. Howard – you are hot.

When I decided to give away my entry in the North Pole Marathon (now valued at approximately $12,000 inclusive of airfare) I wasn’t sure what to expect. In 15 days, over 30 serious athletes have entered the competition. The entry descriptions are really cool – if you want some vicarious running, go take a look at a few of them. There’s still time to enter – please pass this on to any of your crazy runner friends. Thanks to my buds at PixieMate for being a sponsor – if you want to join them and get some promotion for your product on the North Pole, drop me an email.

Whenever an article has the quote “it was a clusterfuck” in it, you know it’s worth reading. While Wired’s article titled “How Yahoo Blew It*”* by Fred Vogelstein is very critical, he’s got a few new nuggets in the article that I hadn’t heard before. Yahoo has a response which ends with “We know that Yahoo! had its challenges this year and we know that we’re going to continue to take bruises publicly until Panama begins to bear fruit, but we’re here for the long haul, and we’re focused to win.” In addition to the “build” of Panama, there continue to be big, interesting strategic moves (and challenges) for Yahoo – a few of which are highlighted by Vogelstein. Once again, Yahoo has the chance to try to change the game – as does Microsoft – and I’d think they would each take a shot this time at being bold (rather than just follow “slow and steady execution”) if they really want to assault Google this time around.

A remarkable number of people have told me that they are watching 24 this year for the first time. If you are now four hours into your 24 experience, let me give you a couple of tips. Everything is not as it seems. Now – this might be obvious, but it’s more dramatic with 24. Unlike some other shows where you get Lost in the story, 24 twists and turns in ways unimaginable later in the season, partly because the writers are only ten shows or so ahead at the beginning of the season. By Hour 20, they are practically writing in real time, getting themselves trapped in corners, and magically escaping. So – don’t assume that the next 20 hours will be on the linear course. Good people die – regularly. If you just saw 9am to 10am, you learned that. It’ll happen again – probably a couple of times. It always sucks – sometimes it gratuitous, sometimes it’s not. But – it always surprises you. Wherever Jack goes, carnage follows. Ok – you probably know this already. Jack has three modes: (1) introspective Jack, (2) screwed up personal life Jack, and (3) mission Jack. So far on Day 6 we’ve seen 1 and 3 – look forward to some of 2. Oh – and the carnage is not just physical – it’s often emotional (especially in Jack mode 2.) You can get anywhere in LA in 20 minutes. Don’t struggle with this – after five years of this, we’ve learned to suspend our disbelief. Chloe is right. Don’t ever question that girl. Believe it or not, she can shoot a gun. CTU hasn’t figured out how to turn cell phones to vibrate. Those damn things ring at such inopportune times. One big hint that I learned when I spent the day on the 24 set last year was that the show is set “sometime in the future.” When I watch 24, I think “today + 8 years” to believe all the technical stuff. When I was on the set, I noticed all the screens showed that they were running OS 34, which was a good giveaway. If you are a nerd and you have the desire, grab some screen shots of the monitors and zoom in – there’s often interesting stuff there.

TechStars – a new project that I’m involved in – officially launched today. The Daily Camera has a nice article titled TechStars set to rise over Boulder summarizing the basic idea of the project. About a year ago, David Cohen – a successful entrepreneur, now an active angel investor, and author of ColoradoStartups – approached me about an idea he had about creating a startup bootcamp in Boulder for the summer of 2007. I immediately loved the idea – create an environment for up to about 10 teams / 30 first time founders to start up companies, give them a small amount of financing but support them extensively with an ecosystem of experienced entrepreneurs, have an intensive three month startup period, and see what comes of it. I introduced David to Jared Polis – a close friend and extremely successful entrepreneur – who also loved the idea. We committed quickly to co-found the program with David and his partner in his first business – David Brown.

Mine speaks English. But – when Amy and I spent a month in Paris last spring, we noticed that all the dogs spoke French. My friends at Dogster and Catster noticed this as well – their sites are now available in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Korean. Ouah Ouah.

When Snap Preview came out, I tossed it up on both Feld Thoughts and AsktheVC the day I noticed it. About a week ago it started to annoy me. While it has shown up on plenty of blogs (Snap claims over 40,000 already), I just can’t figure out the value. I noticed that Fred and Bijan both took it down, so I followed suit and just disabled it. Maybe I’ll try again on their next iteration, but for now I’m Snap free. In addition, in two weeks I’m going to put up another widget from one of my portfolio companies that is a lot cooler and I think they’d clash.