whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
(Analysis/Analysis)

Benin Mwangi, who blogs about doing business in Africa, asked me recently: "should the discussion be about how to get the informal sector to become part of the formal sector or should it be how t

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

...t is hysterical and user-contributed. del.icio.us is king because ... well, actually, it got bought by Yahoo and now it's not nearly as user-friendly and intuitive in the current iteration. ...

3. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

... how to cover the event so as not to offend the state. Shi sent the message to associates overseas on a Yahoo email account. Yahoo passed that information over to the Chinese police, and Shi was arr...

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

...ured, and imprisoned. One journalist was Shi Tao. The police state is China. And the media company is Yahoo. Imagine this had been the New York Times? Judith Miller, a New York Times journalist, ...

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

... relevant adverts.  It is this, more than anything else, which has allowed Google to leap away from Yahoo.  Google also cleverly shares their revenue with websites who host their ad-streams....