August 2008
4 posts
Backtype
A while back I had this idea of using twitter for blog comments. If anyone thought this idea was interesting, you will want to check out Backtype. It is based on a similar (but superior) idea and seems to have been implemented well. Great job guys.
aidinfo
Aidinfo will be old news to people already following Owen Barder’s blog, but it is new to me and makes me very excited. A lot of the work that I want to do deals with various political effects of foreign aid in receiving countries, and getting data on aid is notoriously difficult (check out pages 7 to 10 of this paper by Easterly).
Better data collection is good in and of itself, as it...
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Time on creative capitalism
Time has an article by Bill Gates on creative capitalism which, unfortunately, doesn’t really address my core concern with the idea. In a previous post I mentioned that I thought that capitalism was already creative—that it already does a good job of harnessing and directing resources—and that poor governance was a much larger problem. I understand that markets respond to money, and the...