whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
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...heap computing - the School of the Air was launched. Teachers communicated with their students over ham-radio and thousands of kids got a first-class education remotely. If something similar were ...

2. This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity
(Analysis/Analysis)

... developed SETI@home in 1999. This screen-saver uses the spare capacity on ordinary PCs to sift through radio-telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. The results are sent back to ...

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

...ystem of physical printing and 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 offe...

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

...hese bloggers to dribble with jealousy: international access to their channels in magazines, newspapers, radio and television and a share in the advertising revenue that goes with it. The Internet wil...

5. Have you paid your car guard today?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...bsp; But, cry the rich, why don’t they get a job? A poll a few years ago by KFM, a Cape Town-based radio station, showed that 90% of people want “them” off the streets.  A repre...

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

...; New groups would simply upload their music into the database.  Self-created PodJs would establish radio stations – like current bloggers or podcasters – and introduce you to new mus...

7. Is the $ 100 laptop no more than a really expensive light-bulb?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ack in 1997, as a young engineering student, I conducted a cost-benefit analysis on the Freeplay Wind-up Radio, then in early release.  It was being pitched as a low-cost way to bring the wonders...

8. Poverty: when second best isn't good enough
(Analysis/Analysis)

... their own. Otherwise the products will become as irrelevant as the BayGen company that developed windup radios as a substitute for battery-driven ones. Far from being accepted by the poor, BayGen rad...