VCs and Blogs. I am pretty proud of the fact that Ignition has to be the leading VC when it comes to blog usage. Between my main site, my Halloween site, Tong’s personal site and geek site, and soon to come Zagula, Adrian, Steve, and Michelle, we have to be the most aggressive users of blogs in the VC community.

Probably goes back to our Microsoft training with its “dogfooding” mentality – if you expect customers to use this stuff, you better be willing to use it yourself. Tho Adrian is not a ‘soft alum and he has the same mentality – he led half of Ignition in building their own 802.11 cantennas!

I am proud of the fact that we are hands on and experimental. Shows through in the kinds of companies we invest in and how we work with them. And makes us much more able to do our job – Tong and I can do a much better job on software due diligence, having screwed around with PHP and Perl and MySQL and ASP ourselves.

Ohio State 14, Michigan 9. The Bucks find a way to win again. The defense gave up a lot of plays to Michigan, but no points in the second half. And the offense yet again did just enough to win. If Clarett was truly healthy, the Bucks might have dominated, but he did enough to help.

I’ve had email from my friend Bill congratulating already, and a call from the relatives in Ohio. Woo Hoo!

Scoop. Looks like Tong is taking an interest in Scoop. Might be the codebase to use for a school’s blog, good multiuser features. I’ll intro to some students next week…

Andy Seybold Award to Wildseed. Nice recognition for Wildseed -- Press Release

WildSeed, for the most innovative way to deliver content to a handset: Wildseed?s innovative smart skin concept enables customers to easily change their phones from one profile to another. For example, a customer can remove a ?Star Trek? smart skin and replace it with one that features content and services designed for business users. Smart skin will find its way into the market, complete with specific personalities, on phones built by Kyocera.

MyLifeBits. Kind of where I am trying to head with my blog – EVHEAD: it’s sharp!. Makes you think really hard about the format you store things in and how you name things.

BCS Calcs. Chris’s view on the math of the BCS. Which I totally get, that is the right mathematical explanation. But it just points out to me what a dumb system it is – it is just not sensible for a team to be “penalized” for playing and winning, relative to a team that is idle. Maybe Ohio State was too high last week, and are at their “right” level now, but the system is just goofy. It doesn’t really matter if Ohio State wins out but I am sure there are situations in which it would matter.

Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World. I’m enjoying this book and am just a chapter in. A good argument to start that the US has been far more active in foreign policy, and to far better effect, than we generally recognize. My favorite quote: “The United States, on such a view, is the Mr. Magoo of the world community.”

Seattle Blog Community. Lots of interesting blogs up here – eatonweb portal :: the original weblog directory. I see there is an attempt to have a meet tonight. Can’t do this one because of L’s birthday but will try to get to the next one. Or organize one.

PDA OS Revenues. Interesting article on MSFT vs Palmsource revenues – Pocket PC Thoughts - News, Views, Rants & Raves.

Woody. Let’s all reflect on the best of Woody this week – Ohio State History - Woody Hayes

Woody was famous for his motivational speeches and techniques. He always brought past players in to speak to the current team, and one time, he called up ex-Buckeye star defensive lineman Jim Stillwagon to come in and give a pre-game speech before the UM game and tell the players what it means to play in the big game. Stillwagon began his speech, but Woody interrupted in a big way. Stillwagon described what Woody said and did this way: “I start in with whatever it was I said, and all the sudden Woody just goes into this frenzy: ‘Yeah, but I mean, tell ‘em how it really bleeping was.’ BAM. He hits me right in the stomach. ‘Tell ‘em it’s like war.’ BAM. He hits me again. ‘You gotta kill those sonsabitches!’ BAM. I’m getting the snot beat out of me. It’s like he’s hitting a heavy bag. BAM. ‘Now you tell ‘em, Jim.’ And I’m thinking to myself, ‘How did I get into this?’ But you know what? Every guy who was there told me later, ‘That was a great speech you gave.’“

Netnewswire. need to follow this thread … inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ?NetNewsWire and MovableType? … more tools for multi-blog editting.

Happy Birthday Liz.

Footbridge. Hmm, I’ve been looking for some code to allow me to post to N different blog implementations from one interface. Maybe Footbridge is the thing to use.

Fund a Blogger? Scoble asked me in a comments thread if we would ever fund a blogger. And the answer is “of course”. Both Tong and I are very high on blogs – the amount of energy and innovation around blogs is exciting! There are certainly going to be good businesses here somewhere. I don’t think we know what a good business in the blog space is yet, but we are certainly observing with interest and are happy to hear ideas.

Faked Photos. Wired News: Dubya, Willya Turn the Book Over? – and video isn’t far behind. The other side of this is how to prove that a photo is real. If a photo is presented as evidence at a trial, a good defense lawyer should be able to shred it unless there is amazing documentation on the photo’s history. I am not sure how you would prove that a photo is real. I am sure there are some artifacts at the pixel level left behind by most photo editors that a good forensic analyst could detect. But what about when the tools are good enough to not even leave these footprints? I guess we will need cameras that stamp photos with undeniable tokens at the moment the photo is taken.