whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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(Comments)

...ffic most efficiently so we can get more of these applications out there, which is what we at Hands Off the Internet Coalition are doing....

2. Apple, the destroyer of comfort-zones
(Analysis/Analysis)

...rging. People want to use their phones for all sorts of purposes; from music to photographs to blogging to internet chat to even making phone calls. Companies as diverse as Samsung, Blackberry, HTC...

3. South Ossetia: Russia and Georgia's dangerous game
(Analysis/Analysis)

...an embassy in Russia were followed by a systematic and aggressive attempt to bring down the entire Estonian Internet infrastructure; disabling the websites of government ministries, political parties,...

4. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...on there can be no innovation. Nothing demonstrates the power of open markets more than the difference in Internet adoption rates. By the end of 2007, 71% of Americans were Internet users, 43% of E...

5. Scrogues Converse: Open-space, Identity and the Missing Web
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Gavin: I read Danah Boyd's article a few weeks ago and got angry about it. The thing I enjoy about the internet is its flatness. So I am perturbed by indications of the creation of a classed soc...

6. Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch
(Analysis/Analysis)

...distribution beat the ability of 24-hour network television news, digital radio and the army of independent Internet bloggers to break stories? How can journalists offer top-notch analysis when the m...

7. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ormation but rather an overwhelming surplus. "It's impossible for a printed newspaper to beat the Internet to a story. The Internet never sleeps," says Tǿger Seidenfaden, editor o...

8. Freedom of speech is fine, just don't try to use it, says Patricia de Lille
(Analysis/Analysis)

...emanding that the government look into, "urgently implementing legislation that will regulate MXIT and Internet blogging, where members of the public can with impunity slander and defame individu...

9. The future of newspapers II: of shock-jocks and self-made media-stars
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ompelling drama for generations. Now the vast range of media channels has been extended by the rise of the Internet. In the second part of our interview with Gavin O'Reilly, we continue our anal...

10. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Here a major media company supported its journalist's right to protect her source. It is telling that Internet media companies, which spend so much time complaining that George W Bush is undermi...

11. Government to gag South African bloggers?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o control this? Or are we heading for a two-tiered system where those literate and wealthy enough to afford Internet access get a different type of news from the rest of South Africa? With Cape Town a...

12. One Laptop Per Child, now costing 75% more ...
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e deputy minister of education, declared, "It is wonderful to talk of connecting up our schools to the Internet, but too many schools have no access to running water, let alone electricity."...

13. Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ed the coming of Web 2.0, “the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platfor...

14. The Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia and Lessons in Globalisation
(Analysis/Analysis)

Wikipedia is one of the most popular Internet phenomena.  It is an online encyclopaedia that, in the words of its founder, Jimmy Wales, "Is designed to provide free access to the sum of all

15. Leveraging your good name; the power of a positive credit rating
(Analysis/Analysis)

In the Internet age, when so much information can be gathered about an individual and their behaviour, talk of privacy has become pervasive. One of the central themes of the capitalist age for the la

16. From Linux to Mozilla: donations mean that open-source isn't really free
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s largest diversified companies, has re-engineered their soya procurement and processing chain by supplying Internet-connected computers to rural villagers. ITC felt that, if farmers had greater acce...

17. Making money, doing good
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s operator MTN, the Rwanda system gets field clinic reports via text message, a voice-call system or on the Internet using a computer or Internet-enabled cellphone. Prahalad certainly didn’t or...

18. Lies, damned lies, and curriculum vitae; or why ratings may be the future of education
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ome completely distributed.  It is possible to learn virtually anything via correspondence or over the Internet.  This is a wonderful opportunity for countries with limited infrastructure an...

19. Joost minds the baby: what happens to state control when technology passes them by?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ork parent of MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures - has agreed on a distribution deal with fledgling Internet television service, Joost. Started by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, creators o...

20. "On your left is an Orc fighting a Troll" - travels in hyper-reality offer lessons for the poor
(Analysis/Analysis)

...always be available to sell us something. The speed with which ideas and businesses can propagate over the Internet is so rapid that those left off it are getting further and further behind.  Ye...

21. Privacy Policy
(Static Content)

Whythawk believes that electronic privacy is important for the ongoing success of the Internet as a service, commercial, and entertainment medium. On occasion, Whythawk will make available to potentia

22. Business News
(News Feeds / Business: general)

http://headlines.internet.com/internetnews/bus-news/news.rss

23. Internet:Finance News
(News Feeds / Finance)

http://headlines.internet.com/internetnews/fina-news/news.rss

24. Web Developer News
(News Feeds / Internet)

http://headlines.internet.com/internetnews/wd-news/news.rss