whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...ople make money by selling stuff; like microwave ovens, refrigerators, television sets, playstations and music videos. The destitute cannot afford these things. The only people making money out of...

2. The Revenge of the Markets
(Analysis/Analysis)

...their money from Saambou Bank back in 2002. No plan, just don’t be the last one standing when the music stops. The markets have become profoundly, almost terminally, unstable. Oil prices, w...

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

The music industry has been an unhappy one for almost a decade. Music sales are worth some $ 17.6 billion, but that is 10% down in just the last four years. For every song sold, 20 are estimated to

4. Of Chiefs and Presidents
(Analysis/Analysis)

... a $25 million mansion in Beverly Hills in the US. She had earlier rented a mansion from businessman and music mogul, Sean Combs, for $25,000 per month. At least the people know where their taxes will...

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

... between MySpace and Facebook, wherein the former is considered "gutter" and mostly for use by musicians, porn stars, and generally non-white, trashy types, and the latter is where the &quot...

6. Science gone wrong: when self-delusion leads to death
(Analysis/Analysis)

...panies making washing machines are exploiting you, do the washing by hand. If the companies selling you music are stealing from you, don't buy any. If the drugs you take to prevent measles are c...

7. Suburbanise! How aid and trade obliterate unique cultures
(Analysis/Analysis)

... I have enjoyed travelling around the world and seeing the wonderful diversity of self-expression; from music to food to architecture to fashion to lifestyle. I have always felt it would be a terrib...

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

...mate browser, aggregating information that is just too vast for one person to comprehend." Like the music industry, news has become about brand management; both of their banners and of the writer...

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

...oogle Adwords.  Suddenly companies can offer user-created content in ever-expanding formats: video, music, chat, blogs, diaries, encyclopaedias, hobbies, socialising, favourite things … yo...

10. Lawrence Lessig, take note: Digital freedom still needs digital responsibility
(Analysis/Analysis)

...heir work being rewritten and incorrectly interpreted.  Why is this not allowed in other areas like music or film?  Should we use the legal system to defend the use of our work?  I may ...

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

...the producers since they want to sell stories – their product can be as easily disintermediated as music was when it shifted from CDs to MP3s. A probable future will contain computers and cell ...

12. The Feedback Loop
(Analysis/Analysis)

... Capitalism works in a similar organic fashion. Entrepreneurs identify a need (for microwave ovens, iPod music players, or television soap-operas) and provide it. If they don’t produce enough th...

13. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
(Static Content)

...reneurial Continuum - Gavin Chait Entrepreneurs are as many and as variable as athletes or musicians. You may be the world's greatest endurance runner yet you would be completely o...