Internet

Monica Tan

How the internet savvy are slipping under China's criticism radar

Monica Tan The Dalai Lama, Ai Weiwei, Liu Xiaobo and Tiananmen Square. When the international community brings up ''human rights'' with China, the story plays out with a script so familiar one need only swap...

Michelle Grattan

Internet is parents' worst nightmare

Michelle Grattan For children, the internet is the big enlarger.

John Kampfner

Beware the new UN push to shackle the internet

John Kampfner In horror movies, the scariest moments usually come from the monster you can't see. The same goes for real life, or at least online life.

Paul Sheehan

Internet giants can earn with ease, it's the churn they must fear

Paul Sheehan Google used to be holy. The company's motto was, and presumably still is, ''Don't be evil''. How about changing it to something more practical, like, ''Don't be irritating''? Google was once a...

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Heckler

Internet scam had silver lining

Heckler Dozens of phone calls from thoughtful friends asking had I really been mugged in Manila? No, I had been hacked.

Richard Glover

Why the internet will destroy the planet

Richard Glover Idiots used to be corralled in places called pubs, in which they could bore each other with their crazy opinions while drinking themselves into alcoholic dementia but now — suddenly —...

The internet is going to hell

Myf Warhurst This week, I got a special message in my inbox on Twitter. It read, "Hi, I'm 25, female and horny." I haven't had that many offers of late, and never one from her, so I knew something was wrong.

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Internet full of downfalls and regret

The Goanna It has all the informality and appearance of privacy with all the trappings of creating a public record.

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Territory given little cause for celebration

Emma Macdonald and Peter Jean Federal largesse to the ACT was minimal in the budget, despite the announcement it would claw back $74 million.

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Drone debate too late once they get off the ground

Jai Galliott In last week's Defence Department white paper the Australian public got a scary one-line insight into the future of its air force.

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Hooked on outrage in the Twitter wars

Jacqueline Maley How much can we really expect of Justin Bieber? As a rule, anyone who has had a haircut named after them should not be taken too seriously.

The Zone transcript: Mark Triffitt

Michael Short Michael Short speaks with Mark Triffitt, long-time politics and policy thinker.

Revive the body politic

Michael Short There will be at least some debate ahead of the federal election about policies and ideas. And there will be the banal and brutal attacks.

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Abbott has moved on from playing the clown

Jacqueline Maley Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was interviewed by Leigh Sales on 7.30 on Wednesday night. It was a TV event highly anticipated by politics dorks, and I know several who raced home for it.

All that glitters ... Abbott and 'Mr Broadband' hawk the copper option

Heath Aston This was not your average election policy launch. This was a Tony Abbott media event minus the fluorescent vest and safety glasses but with a little bit of Steve Jobs-type salesmanship.

James Brown

Kim Jong-un dances to dangerous tune

James Brown While Kim Jong-un is threatening destruction of US cities, North Korea's elite can't get enough of US popular culture.

Looking for a quicksand escape

Mark Kenny Like the ubiquitous quicksand scene from the movies of his youth, the more John Howard struggled in 2007, the faster he sank.

Ross Gittins

Smartphone fever: perils of embracing the cyber crowd

Ross Gittins Is the productivity boost of mobile technology worth the hassle?

Ross Gittins

No pause to think in a world that's in touch while on the go

Ross Gittins I confess to a having an old fogey's ambivalence towards mobile phones. There are times when it suits me to keep in touch, but most of the time I don't want a phone taking over my life - or even...

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