This Month
Kelly Partners CEO and Buffett aficionado bypasses ASX with Twitter
Brett Kelly has drawn inspiration from Warren Buffett’s habit of writing open letters to shareholders.
‘No time wasters’: Why workplace ditherers are no longer tolerated
Rejecting time wasters can seem abrupt. But in our overloaded age, taking up valuable time is also an affront.
May
‘Nowhere to hide’: Why more CEOs are fronting videos
Executives are increasingly filming themselves for social media as a way to talk directly to staff, customers and shareholders.
Here’s what Elon Musk sees when he opens X
The New York Times re-created a version of Elon Musk’s personal feed by opening a new account on X and following the same 1109 users that he follows.
Meet the new (ultrathin) champions of body positivity
A new cultural ideal for women is ultrathin but cloaked in the language of inclusivity and self-acceptance.
‘Black Mirror’ showed us a future. Some of it is here now.
The long-running tech drama always felt as if it took place in a dystopian near future. How much of that future has come to pass?
Why Snapchat has struggled to grow while TikTok, Facebook surge
The social media and messaging app’s accounts for Australia reveal a company with a huge user base that is struggling to monetise it.
Telstra marketing boss deletes anti-Dutton loathing
The marketer apparently forgot LinkedIn is a safe space only for humble brags.
People are changing how they use LinkedIn. So is the platform
The social media platform is providing its owner with a billion willing guinea pigs, perhaps giving it an edge in the artificial intelligence race.
How YouTube justifies its carve-out from social media ban
Emails obtained under freedom of information laws reveal how Google argued the video service was so different from TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.
Why investors (but not workers) are raving about Microsoft, Meta
The big-tech AI party seemed to be winding down, but Meta and Microsoft say the night is still young.
TikTok triples its Australian profits as youth social media ban looms
The short-form video platform nearly doubled its revenue in Australia as it continues a hiring spree to outgrow rivals Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
An age of extinction is coming. Here’s how to survive
The digital era is killing us softly by distracting us from the activities that sustain ordinary life and making existence at a human scale seem obsolete.
April
Facebook’s local revenues surge to $1.46b, almost all sent overseas
The social media giant owned by Meta has defied an advertising downturn to increase income by $110 million over last year, even as it faces big headwinds.
Andrew Forrest and Basil Zempilas make sure we know they met the Pope
Pope Francis’ lessons on modesty, service and getting the job done are lost on the rich and not-so-famous.
TikTok, Meta, Snapchat demand answers on YouTube ‘sweetheart deal’
The tech giants say Michelle Rowland’s unexplained favouritism towards Google’s video platform undermines new social media age restriction laws.
Dubai chocolate sparks pistachio shortage as TikTokers go nuts
A TikTok craze has helped drive pistachio kernel prices from $US7.65 a pound a year ago to around $US10.30 a pound now as importers scramble for supplies.
YouTube exemption exposes teen social media ban as a sham
The government’s preferential treatment of YouTube undermines the purpose of its under-16s social media ban, and is unfair to the other tech industry players.
‘A bouncy castle of idiocy’: The top political TikToks reviewed
We asked two advertising veterans to review the major parties’ highest performing TikToks. Here’s their verdict.
Rowland gave YouTube a personal exemption guarantee from social ban
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland wrote to YouTube’s global chief to reassure him the platform would not be covered by a contentious social media ban.