Recently, I spent part of a day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA at the National Center for Women & Information Technology Entrepreneur Alliance Planning Session. It was a good meeting – we covered a lot of ground with an interesting group of people as we explored whether or not it makes sense to create an NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance (it does) to go along with the Workforce Alliance, Academic Alliance, and the new K-12 Alliance.

My dad – Dr. Stanley Feld – just started a blog called Repairing the Healthcare System. Stan – a retired endocrinologist – has been deeply involved in trying to improve the healthcare system throughout his entire career. He just sent out a note to a bunch of his email friends with his goal for the blog. I have started a blog. It is called Repairing the Healthcare System. It is my view that the patient and the physician are the major stakeholders in the health care system. Without either, there would be no need for a healthcare system. None the less, the physician and the patients have little input into the dysfunctional system. You are going to hear a physician’s view of what went wrong and how to fix it.

Today’s Paris Museum tour once again brought to you by La Vache and his new friend, Le Scary Badass Manhorse Sculpture About To Step on La Vache (Amy told me this is actually a Cesar.) The Centre Pompidou was our quest today and it didn’t disappoint as it just moved up to the #1 position in the Feld / Batchelor Art of Paris in May competition. The experience begins with an amazing building that was the pet project of President Georges Pompidou, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, built in 1977, and then renovated in 1999. 

Mike Arrington just went to Spain and described virtually all my trips to countries where English isn’t the first language (ask me about my first non-trip to Versailles, trying to find a hotel in Paris by driving around the ring road around Paris – say – four or five times before realizing it was a circle, or getting mugged outside the Louvre.) I hope this isn’t foreshadowing for my trip to Munich on Monday.

I love Christopher Moore’s books. While A Dirty Job is nowhere as good as his all time best (Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – a book David Cowan turned me on to five years ago that resulted in me reading – in order – the other five books Moore had published up to that time), it’s still a riot. Moore is – in three words – “one twisted fuck” – and his writing reflects his immense creativity and deeply warped sense of humor. 

After listening to I’m The Decider, I decided I wanted to go find something on the Stephen Colbert 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner Roast. So – I went to del.icio.us, clicked on my Bush tag, and then clicked on the YouTube link I’d tagged. Imagine my surprise when I saw the following: Last week there were a series of back and forth posts between Fred Wilson, Jason Calicanas, with comments from Dave McClure and a bunch of others about whether or not YouTube was legit or if they simply stole content.

I’m a huge Beatles fan. I love mashups. I love covers. I love watching politicians get roasted. So – how could I not love “I’m The Decider” – especially since I’m sitting in an apartment in Paris.

Paul Kendrosky’s pickup on Joey Ramone’s affection for Maria Bartiromo made my head spin around in circles this morning. The full interview is in the Financial Times / Arts & Weekend section.

The Boulder Daily Camera (our local daily newspaper) has started aggregating the best blogs from a series of local Boulder business bloggers. Matt Branaugh – the business editor at the Daily Camera – made this happen and is working on a bunch of other cool and progressive blog-oriented things. There are plenty of experts talking about all the different things going on with local newspapers – I’m certainly not “an expert” in this area, but I do know that Matt is breaking plenty of new and interesting ground and I’m happy to be one of the locals that he calls on for help and advice.