One of my favorite new investments (ok – all my new investments are “my favorites”) – Me.dium – has a pair of video interviews up on the Scoble Show. If you are interested, start with the demo – then go watch the interview with Robert Reich and Kimbal Musk. Look for the Me.dium widget on my sidebar soon (oops – did I say that?)

Our beloved dog Denali died on 12/22/06 at 11:20pm. I’ve written the story up on Denali’s page at Dogster. We got Denali when he was about six weeks old – he came to live with us about a month after we moved to Boulder. He was an incredible dog – beautiful, smart, happy, and loved by everyone. We’ll miss you Denali. Enjoy your stay in the big treat yard in the sky.

Scott Howard Photography has a truly amazing picture of Sydney Australia at night. It’s 169 separate photos stitched together with Autopano Pro with an aggregate resolution of 720 Megapixels (40k x 18x). As a special bonus, he’s also got a 1500 Megapixel photo of Machu Picchu. Wow – this makes my 6 MP camera look really lame.

A friend of mine and active angel investor asked me the following question recently*: “I thinking of getting involved in a ‘base hit’ type company, but one that feels like I could really help. It probably won’t be a huge win, but then again I feel confident it will at least work and be viable. I’m just struggling with committing my time, which is of course my most valuable asset. I guess I fear the opportunity cost of not being able to focus on things that could potentially be bigger. How do you reconcile this sort of stuff as an investor?* I sent him a long answer which – after I sent it – realized it was a blog post. Following is what I wrote him.

NewsGator Enterprise On-Demand just went Beta 2 and has 100 customer slots available. Charlie Wood eloquently describes why he thinks it is important. If you are a fan of acronyms and great software, you’ll understand why I think this product should be code named NGOD instead of NGEOD. If you are interested in road testing NewsGator’s Enterprise RSS-reader in an On-Demand environment (which also works with all of NewsGator’s client side apps – FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Go!, Inbox), go sign up for the beta.

Sometimes (actually often) “truth is stranger than fiction.” Nik Cubrilovic – the founder / CEO of Omindrive – has an incredible post up describing “A November I Will Always Remember*.”* As he says in the teaser – “here is a story about cross-feed fuel valves, space heaters and wisdom teeth.” It’s also about work life balance, unintended consequences, and the value of having a great attitude no matter what is going on around you.

Lest I neglect another one of our portfolio companies, Klocwork also received an Infoworld 2007 Technology of the Year Award for the App Dev category (for Best Source Code Analyzer.) Congrats guys.

Well – that’s a nice way to start the year. I just saw that Infoworld chose NewsGator Enterprise Server 1.4 as their 2007 Technology of Year for the Data Manager – Best Enterprise RSS Manager.

Last August, I stumbled into the idea of running the North Pole Marathon. Early in December, I realized it was a dumb ass idea – at least for me – as I’d never be ready for it given the inconsistent training I did in the fall. So – I decided not to run it (at least not in 2007.) As Kenny Rogers once said, sometimes you’ve got to “know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away, know when to run.” I’m not running this time – I’m going to fold ‘em instead.