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.”

As the stock market continues to flounder around (mostly the wrong direction) and some people in the middle east continue to try to destroy each other, I woke up this morning pondering failure. I thought of another “classical entrepreneurial lesson” that we made at Martingale Software – lack of focus. When we started Martingale Software in 1984, our original vision was “to write software for the new Apple Macintosh.” That was pretty broad, so as we sat around in a classroom somewhere at MIT (because it had a nice big blackboard that we could scribble on, plus it made us feel grown up), we decided to narrow our focus. After many hours (or was it minutes?) of discussion, we decided we would write “graphics software for the new Apple Macintosh.” Once we landed on this, we immediately started designing stuff, well before we had our Apple Lisa (a requirement for writing software for the first Macs.)

Chris Sacca linked to this video of an unreal hockey fight between Russia and Canada in 1987. Egads. Where’s Jack Bauer when you need him to break things up?

Today, FeedBurner announced that it has acquired Blogbeat. Congrats Jeff. Congrats FeedBurner. On February 22nd, I installed Blogbeat (ah – the joys of a good stats package – it’s easy to find out the day you started using it.) On February 28th, I wrote an updated “New and Exciting Stats” post on my blog where I mentioned Blogbeat. I’m a stats junkie – I was the seed investor in one of the first web analytics companies (NetGenesis) and had one of my big investment successes with another (Service Metrics). Stats have been very good to me.