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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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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Bruce Guthrie

I had the famous prey in my sights and held my fire

Bruce Guthrie The paparazzi and editors give the people a magazine they want and deserve.

Alecia Simmonds

Why oh why, Gen Y, are you so nauseatingly conservative?

Alecia Simmonds In the late '90s, when raving meant dancing and sun-dried tomatoes meant culinary sophistication, I joined a group at university called the Activist Left.

All men are liars

Every mouthful makes the future harder to swallow

Sam de Brito A US Gulf War veteran who calls himself ''Shoenice'' has clocked up more than 50 million views on YouTube with videos of himself eating stuff like sticks of deodorant, pencils, a jar of Vegemite and...

Peter Martin

Hacker's suicide a warning to those seeking to punish copyright breaches

Peter Martin Harsh penalties for violating websites' terms of service are hugely out of all proportion.

Tables have turned on 'slut shamers'

Julia Baird A few weeks ago four words appeared overnight on a garage door in Manly in thick red paint, on a hill overlooking the ocean, dotted with frangipani trees and bandicoot holes: Anna is a SLUT.

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Emma Young

Why 'women are watching porn' should not be a story

Emma Young Can we please become less judgmental in our view of female sexuality.

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Nicholas Tonti-Filippini

Anti-discrimination legal moves a clear lesson in the perils of overkill

Nicholas Tonti-Filippini Religious schools should have the right to employ whoever they see fit.

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Gerard Henderson

Turns out Mayans weren't alone in getting carried away about 2012

Gerard Henderson WITH Mayan followers foretelling the end of the world before Christmas, it was to be expected 2012 would be replete with hyperbole, prophecy and odd behaviour.

The Milky Bars, and joke, are on them

John Birmingham People with super big phones have always looked weird when using them as originally intended.

Heckler

Vilifying the virus of email

PLEASE everyone, spare me that pitying look on your smug faces when you ask for my email address and I say that I am not on the internet.

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Russell Marks

Myki: disaster from touch on to touch off

Russell Marks Melbourne public transport passengers are now stuck with myki, the new ticketing system which can only be described as disastrous.

Cheap meth! Cheap guns! Click here

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF BEIJING: Want to buy illegal drugs in China? No problem - just go to the wild and woolly internet here and order a $50 or $100 package of methamphetamines, ecstasy or cocaine.