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http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/entrepreneurshipquiz.asp
This quiz is a promotional tool for the book "The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By."  Sounds like it could be an interesting book, although if all it does is answer these kinds of trivia questions, I probably won’t read it…
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We interrupt your blog reading for this public service announcement:
(My apologies to those who don’t live near Moncton, New Brunswick - which is most of you… sorry):
My city mate Sebastien is looking for Moncton writers to contribute to Monctonians.com on a regular basis.
He lists some possible areas of interest like adventure, sports, scrapbooking, fashion, antiques, […]

Seth Godin has a good post on things you can learn from music business:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/music-lessons.html
He makes some great points, but two in particular really resonate with my thinking about technology startups:
1. Past performance is no guarantee of future success
Every single industry changes and, eventually, fades. Just because you made money doing something a certain way yesterday, […]

I own the domain citizenville.com, but I’m not using it.  Do you want it?  Leave a comment here telling me what you would use it for.  If I fancy your idea, I’ll transfer the domain over to you.

I just posted the latest episode of Devcasting:
http://devcasting.com/index.php/2007/12/17/devcasting-8-ruby-on-rails-with-bruce-tate/
In this episode, Derek Hatchard and Mike Mullen speak with Ruby on Rails author and developer Bruce Tate about the Ruby programming language, the Ruby on Rails web framework, some of the differences between static and dynamic typing, Rails scalability, how to get started with Ruby on Rails, […]

Today I did something very therapeutic:  I refreshed my to-do list.  I flipped to a clean page in my Moleskine notebook and started a new list.  Stale items that obviously were not important to me have been dropped.  I’ve listed out what I want to get done before January when I have a new project […]

I’m moderately embarrassed, but I think this is soooo cool.  (My wife says it is soooo geeky):

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/991e

Google has dealt a sharp blow to the walled garden of Facebook, the current darling of social networking.  The new OpenSocial API is a common API that can be used to access data from all social networks that support the OpenSocial standard.  A bunch of popular social networkings are jumping onboard:  Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, […]

Uh, wait a second, some of us here in Canada do still value some level of privacy as part of the fabric of Canadian life…
(Click here for the original CTV story)
A consultation document obtained by CTV News reveals the [Canadian] government is planning to hold talks to “address the challenges faced by police, the Canadian […]

This is just crazy.  This guy is auctioning off his name.  No, not giving someone the right to use his name.  He’s selling the right to give HIM a NEW name.
For $250,000 Stan offers a buy it now price that lets anyone with enough cash bypass the auction and win his name outright. In order […]