Today, FeedBurner announced that Matt Blumberg has joined their board of directors. Matt – the CEO of Return Path – has a good post about his perspective on joining the board. Matt has always been an advocate on the value of CEO’s sitting on other boards and has benefited greatly by the CEO’s that have been on his board (thanks Scott, Bob, and Ben.) As a long time investor (and past board member) for Return Path, it’s been fun to work with Matt as he’s grown the company. It’ll be fun to work with him side by side to help the FeedBurner guys. Welcome Matt!

I’ve had a rash of friends and colleagues struggle with various forms of cancer (most notably, but not limited to, breast cancer) the past 24 months – I guess I’m of the age where this starts to be a real part of one’s life (fortunately I haven’t lost anyone to this, which is a testament to progress since “cancer” is no longer an automatic death sentence.) Derek pointed me at MyCancerPlace – an online community for people with cancer. It’s another twist on the resurgence of the rapidly spreading community model. It looks like it has just launched and there’s not much content yet, but at first glance it’s well put together. If you – or a friend / family member has cancer, it’s worth taking a look.

The sun does eventually start to set up here. Amy took a bunch of beautiful pictures tonight. Good night.

If you liked my post titled The Three Constituencies, you should read Stan James followup post titled Attention to Dollars, And Other Exchanges. Stan is the founder of a cool new company named Outfoxed that is a result of work he did for his masters thesis. And yes – he’s also in Boulder.

NewsGator announced that Goodman and Carr – one of the leading law firms in Canada – has deployed NewsGator Enterprise Server. The nifty thing about this implementation – which is detailed in the case study that just went up on the NewsGator web site – is the tight integration between NewsGator Enterprise Server and Microsoft Sharepoint. Yum: NGES + Sharepoint = Chocolate + Peanut Butter.

Alan Shimel – Chief Strategy Officer for StillSecure, blogger, and now podcaster interviewed me and Scott Converse today. Scott is the founder / CEO of ClickCaster, a Boulder-based podcast creation and hosting company (Alan uses ClickCaster for his podcast.) Scott has been around the block (eWorld anyone?), is a great entrepreneur, and a fun guy to hang with. ClickCaster has made a ton of progress since I first met Scott a year ago – definitely worth a look if you are into podcasting.

I love books. I just finished reading for the night (and polished off another Edward Abbey book – Hayduke Lives! – not as good as The Monkey Wrench Gang – but still really good.) I went to put it in the “Read Books Bookshelf” (which happens to be the color red) and realized that it’s completely full (don’t think single bookshelf – think wall of books.) I stared at the wall for a minute and then realized I had a similar predicament at home in Boulder. We are completely out of bookshelf space throughout the house (and there’s plenty of it.) Every few years, I decide that I’m going to give all my books to the library, but then I try and get rejected (the last time I tried, the Boulder Library told me that I could bring them in “a box at a time and they’d decide which ones they want – but they usually want less than 10% of the books” – screw that.)

I was recently introduced to Dogster by Jeff Clavier. My skeptical gene kicked in big time when I first heard about it (a social network for dogs – c’mon) but then I went and played with it and got to spend some time with Ted Rheingold (not surprisingly the “top dog.”) Woof – Ted totally gets it! I put up short profiles for my dogs – Denali and Kenai – just to see what would happen. So far it’s been a much more interesting experience than my MySpace page. But then again – I like dogs more than I like people.

Senator Ted Stevens – the senior ranking Alaska senator, longest serving Republican in the Senate, and king of Alaska pork – is regularly on the front page of the Anchorage newspaper (usually praising him for the great things he does for Alaska.) He made news of a different kind last week concerning his statements about net neutrality. According to bLaugh, the Stevens development team is currently working on “an Internet Cerfboard.”