The New York Times: A new blog is coming to prime time at the last bastion of printed news, which is quite strange to imagine. Entitled You're The Boss, the blog aims to let Jay Goultz, the "Thinking Entrepreneur," wax poetic on what it means to be an entrepreneur with the wheel of the good ship tightly in your grasp. Here's a quick executive summary of the blog's guiding principle:

"One of the guiding thoughts behind this blog is that unlike doctors and lawyers and a lot of other professionals, business owners rarely get any training. Nor do they have a lot of places to turn to compare notes, get advice, learn from one another’s mistakes, and keep up with the important changes coming out of Washington. We’re hoping this will be that kind of place." If that sounds like your kind of thing, be sure to add the blog to your RSS feed reader and learn more as Goultz chronicles "his own experiences as well as those of other business owners he will follow."

Gigaom: Who else but Om Malik could offer Tips on Innovation & Entrepreneurship From Jeff Bezos?Here's just one of a plethora of valuable hints from Amazon.com's CEO and innovator extraordinaire: "The trick to being an entrepreneur is to know when to be stubborn and when to be flexible: Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible about tactics, Bezos said. For instance, you can be flexible about reducing costs, but you don’t change your vision to reduce costs. Great point, because more often than not, founders get caught up in the tactics and change their direction as a result." There are many more where that came from, including a solid suggestion to take failure as just one step on the ladder to business success and one way to make sure your customers remain the focus of your business' day-to-day operations. 5-star stuff, people!

ArsTechnica.com: Whoops! Looks like something's rotten in Denmark, or Minneapolis (if you'll excuse the mis-location of a metaphor) and the RIAA's stepped in it again, it seems. Nate Anderson is on the legal beat and his RIAA lawyers toss "a skunk in the jury box," apologize helps to clear out the odor from a smelly bit of lawyer-ly misconduct. Anderson explains how RIAA computer science expert Doug Jacobson pulled a rather large boner in this doozy of a quote:

Jacobson said he had found a log file on the Jammie Thomas-Rasset hard drive image he had examined. That log file indicated that an external hard drive had been connected to the machine—a minor point, but one that the recording industry seemed to believe indicated that Thomas-Rasset had loaded her new hard drive with songs from an external drive. (She had replaced the hard drive at issue in the case when the infringement in question was detected, apparently after her 10-year old son had smacked the machine in frustration and broken it.)

Defense lawyer Joe Sibley said that this log file information was news to him, and he wondered why it wasn't in Jacobson's original report. When had he learned about it? "A couple days ago," said Jacobson.

"A couple days ago!" thundered Sibley. "No further questions."

He stalked off to his table and threw down his pen.

The jury was removed and Jacobson was questioned further. It turned out that he had recently unearthed the log file information when preparing again for his testimony, had mentioned it in passing to a recording industry lawyer, and no one had notified the defense—a massive error.

This is top-notch miscreancy in one of the most followed P2P piracy cases in recent history. Tune in for tomorrow's testimony by defendant Jammie Thomas-Rassett, who is slated to take the stand and testify in her own defense. Let's hope she knows how to plead the 5th Amendment should the RIAA's lead counsel, Tim Reynolds pull out the self-implication shtick.

Forbes.com: Rest easy and let this automatic slideshow present a bevy of entrepreneurial spirits who know how to make a good idea great. In Pictures: 10 Remarkable, Recession-Proof Entrepreneurs
for the win.

TechCrunch.com: And finally, to cap off the day's interesting stories, why not visit Sarah Lacy from far-away Africa in her very insightful post, Memo from Rwanda: Eat Your Heart Out Al Gore. Lacy has visited the dark continent more than once this year and provides an honest assessment of how things are shaping up in one of the poorest countries on Earth. Surprisingly, Rwanda is rich in natural resources that could serve as fuel for future development and economic growth. Lacy writes on the huge methane reserve trapped at the bottom of Lake Kivu: "For years, the local brewery, Bralirwa, which is 70%-owned by Heineken, has extracted some of the gas to power its plant, and now the country is extracting enough to power three of its cities with more planned. Experts say there’s enough Methane to power the entire country for 400 years. And the Rwandan government has ambitious plans to eventually sell the excess energy to other African nations." Be sure to check out the rest of Lacy's story for an unexpected look at a country on the mend.

Bonus piece 'o the day: Harvard Business' Seize the Silver Lining: A Checklist for Innovation by Scott Anthony.