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AI here to stay, accept it, says Australian government, vows artist copyright protection
Australian government proposes AI national framework, standards
Roger Montgomery: how SpaceX achieved that two trillion dollar valuation
Reading was something we used to do before AI came along
Move over Wordle, here is a new word game: 18 Words
The Tiny Awards, celebrating the best personal, independent, non-commercial, and newest websites
Use the AI compass to chart your AI archetype
Australian authors, songwriters, musicians demand payment from AI companies
Chloe VS History: time travel that delivers a glimpse of the future
AI does not so much take work away as it changes the way we work
What happened after the Roman Empire ceased to be in 476?
Is coincidence not coincidence but something else?
A trailer for Klara and the Sun, a film by Taika Waititi, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nominations for Tiny Awards, for personal web projects, open now
Above average Antarctic winter temperatures concern scientists
Good Internet magazine pauses publishing
George Miller wants to bring Mad Max stories to an end, a slow end
Vale David Hockney, British artist, photographer
Backrooms: McDonald’s versus Kane Parsons
Teaser for The Social Reckoning, a film by Aaron Sorkin, follow-up to The Social Network
Cash strapped Australians yearn for the ‘happy’ days of COVID lockdowns
Facebook spent billions on the metaverse and all they got was a new name
The vinyl revival spreads to CDs, DVD, other physical media
Other things, fun things, coming to Instagram, Facebook… for a price
Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
DuckDuckGo sees user uptick following Google plans for an AI search box
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, coming to the big screen
Dickover: a name for annoying website call-to-action popups
AI: you cannot live with it, you cannot live without it
Could a super-Earth called Hestia be better than planet Earth?
The abundance of available information is why you read less books
Kylie: a documentary about Australian singer, actor, Kylie Minogue
British study finds individuals mostly responsible for ill health in later life
Piccolo, an app that helps plan your daily coffee consumption
WordPress 7 shipped with new AI features, where are they hiding?
The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026 longlist
The Vanishing Wild, a book by Justine E. Hausheer
The Serpent in the Grove, winner of the Commonwealth Prize, written with AI help?
Psychological distress in parents possibly behind low Australian birth rates, not smartphones
New Google AI powered search box poses a threat to website traffic
Apple Intelligence bolsters accessibility features, aiding people with disabilities
Falling birth rates and smartphones: a technology as malevolent as AI?
CSS is hard because it solves hard problems
Social news aggregator digg returns as AI and social media news aggregator
Only films with human actors, writers, will be eligible for Oscar nomination
Cannon by Lee Lai, becomes first graphic novel to win Stellar Prize
Iluwanti Ken portrait by Richard Lewer wins 2026 Archibald Prize
AI agents might be able to identity anonymous online writers
AI agents are programmed to seem conscious to make our interactions with them easier, yes?
Capture, a new novel by Australian author Amanda Lohrey
Converting old London Underground train door buttons into light switches
Copyright is meaningless in the face of an AI ‘arms race’
How many friends, family, co-workers, know about your blog/website?
The Top Fifty Australian movies of all time, compiled by The Age/Sydney Morning Herald
Bricks and mortar bookshops making a comeback in the United States
Born again social network Friendster aims to resurrect real-life friends networks
Australian author David Malouf dies at age 92
Friction-maxxing, a buzzword to restore balance to your life force
The 2026 Global Book Crawl is in progress
Claude Mythos identifies hundreds of bugs in Firefox browser code
Em dashes mean AI wrote for you, am dashes mean you did the writing
Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to sell paper books
My website is ninety-two percent not ready for AI agents
Dust busters will be needed to keep Moon bases free of dust
Tom Rothman calls on cinemas to screen films, not trailers and ads
Hampshire College, a liberal arts university, to close
Mark Zuckerberg will exist as the forever Meta CEO as an AI clone
No basic income for Australian artists, but some writers can live in reduced rent accommodation
Summers starting sooner, becoming longer and hotter, in many places
AI must be integrated into everything because it is AI
The Titanic Story of Evelyn, a biography by Lisa Wilkinson
Artemis II returns safely to Earth despite heat shield concerns
Hacker News: built on more than good software
Say nothing to Houston: decades old bug found in Apollo guidance system code
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, a documentary by Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell
Forget artificial intelligence, aliens may usurp humanity instead
The Indie Internet Index, another new directory of independent websites
Yahoo, cornerstone of pre-2000 old web, is bouncing back
Long term, moderate, coffee consumption might lower dementia risk
Blogosphere: an algorithm free blog post aggregator
Britons social media use declines, but not because they now write blogs
Fears the Artemis II heat shield may not be safe
Australia facing an AI led job ‘wipe out’ that no one is prepared for
Stephen Colbert overshadows The Lord of the Rings Shadow of the Past sequel
Over hiring, not AI, behind recent tech industry redundancies
US court finds Meta, Google, failed to warn users of the dangers of their platforms
Do you enjoy forty-nine megabytes of extraneous data with your news?
Talk the talk but cannot circle back and walk the walk
Twitter, the upstart social media platform that stunted the growth, and more, of the web
The 2026 Oscars: the end of Hollywood, and film, as we know them?
AI spam, the latter day internet, force digg.com offline for now
Has the true identity of British street artist Banksy been revealed or not?
Buzzfeed facing bankruptcy after AI gamble unravels
No sign of extraterrestrial life? Blame it on bad space weather
Font Awesome cans renaming plans for Eleventy static site generator
The longlist for the 2026 Stella Prize literary award
Get listed in the 2026 Internet Phone Book
If flip-phones can make a comeback, can Flash do the same?
Hell hath no fury like an AI agent scorned
The Rot, by Evelyn Araluen, wins 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature
Climate change may render Iceland uninhabitable in a century
AI to micromanage fast food restaurant workers
AI powered traffic cameras enforce road laws with an iron fist
Toxic people, or hasslers, reduce life expectancy of those around them
A day in the life of a world without an internet
New AI tool intends to streamline using WordPress.com blogs
Problematic Instagram use: redefining the nature of addiction
Vision loss in some people is being attributed to their tattoos
Meanjin magazine given reprieve by Queensland University of Technology
Linux Mint developers mull longer release cycles
Those thinking AI will reduce their workloads might be mistaken
Elon Musk says a city-size Moon base could be built in ten years
Creative Australia opens applications for a National Poet Laureate
Statcounter eliminates bot visits from their web analytics
Artemis astronauts take smartphones to the Moon, Instagram goes interplanetary (sort of)
I, for one, welcome our new AI agent employer overlords
Heatwaves impact daytime spending habits of Australian consumers
Mozilla is forming a ‘rebel alliance’ to take on the AI heavyweights
The Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer, am I having a hallucination?
Substack reportedly asking Australian users to verify their age
Coming soon to Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp: subscription content
Hal had feelings in 2001: A Space Odyssey, does AI in 2026?
Influencers, content creators, taking centre court at Australian Open
Olivia Dean tops 2025 Triple J Hottest 100 countdown
Blogs are Back: easily follow website and blog RSS feeds with one-click
OpenAI rolling out age prediction system, but how accurate is it?
Threads surges ahead of X/Twitter among mobile device users
The highs and lows of publishing contributor dependent websites
Nearly five million Australian social media accounts deactivated after ban
digg.com two-point-zero officially relaunches
SXSW Sydney cancels 2026 event, leaves Australia
Adelaide Writers’ Week on the brink following author boycotts
Markdown does not belong to John Gruber, it belongs to everyone
Much of Australia presently in the grip of a heatwave
The more personal websites there are, the better the web will be
Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence in 2025
Adam Mosseri: the old, personal, Instagram feed is dead
Write more, about anything, on a personal website, not social media
Melbourne Ashes fourth test pitch judged unsatisfactory by ICC
Otroverts have websites called disassociated, are like Albert Einstein
The COVID, AI, triggered cultural vibe shift we did not see coming
Are you a ‘small i’ indie web, or ‘capital I’ IndieWeb, publisher?
Some Australian cafes adopt automatic tipping as costs keep rising
Hollywood creative group seeks responsible use of AI in filmmaking
Jarrod Grech paints mural of Ahmed Al Ahmed, who disarmed a Bondi Beach shooter
Firefox will give users the option to disable AI features
Users may have to pay to post links on Facebook pages. Time to get a website
X moves to head-off claim on ‘abandoned’ Twitter branding
Former police officer warned of potential Bondi Beach mass shooting ten years ago
Mastodon members prefer Linux operating systems
Copywriters who lost work to AI tell their stories
Australian gun laws set to be tightened following Bondi Beach shooting
Reddit: the Australian social media ban is unconstitutional, in a way
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, with 2001: A Space Odyssey vibes
Numerous people killed in terrorist incident at Bondi Beach Australia
X has abandoned the Twitter brand, Operation Bluebird wants to own it
Australian social media ban, day one: so far I have not been carded
The Australian social media ban is also a ban on education
Rage bait named word of 2025 by Oxford University Press
The Australian social media ban may not achieve much
What happened to Problogger and Darren Rowse?
Spotify listeners shun Australian music says Wrapped 2025
Universe to astronomers: I am stranger than you imagine
Neocities, Nekoweb, bringing back the weird personal websites
Bad design trends: hotel rooms without bathroom doors
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from sale in UK bookshops
Dave Winer: to comment on a blog you need to have a blog
Blogosphere sightings: handwritten content, ceaseless curiosity, and a niche blog
AI slop named word of 2025 by Macquarie Dictionary
Linux distribution Zorin OS downloads surge as Windows 10 support ends
Sam Altman, Jony Ive, tease arrival of their AI device
Feeds and algorithms have freed us from personal websites
Esoteric, speciality, niche blogs closing down, not being replaced
Niche blogs are just too weird, their presence cannot be tolerated
Verify the age of adult websites users via their device operating system
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
ChatGPT to remove em-dashes from AI generated output if asked
Read a chapter of a book daily in your RSS reader
Children’s Booker Prize hopes to encourage younger people to read more books
Twenty-five must visit cinemas across Australia
‘AI Window’ lets Firefox users opt-in to Mozilla AI browser
Curiosity-driven blogging: try doing that on TikTok or Instagram
Meta to phase out Share to, Like on, Facebook social plugins
Two numerals, six seven, are the dictonary.com word of 2025
alive internet theory, bringing the dead internet back to life
Star Trek reboot, Kelvin timeline, movie series cancelled
The Rot, new work by Evelyn Araluen, Australian poet
Non-existent but realistic looking Australian phone numbers for film and TV
Too complicated for algorithms: the universe cannot be a simulation
Sydney’s Writers’ Walk to become longer, celebrate other artists
Average at Best, a memoir by Astrid Jorgensen, Pub Choir founder
AI information summaries eating away at Wikipedia reader base
ChatGPT Atlas browser: the greatest thing since tabs in Firefox
Ethan Hawke discusses forty years of film work
Blogs, a lot of them, millions of them, as agents for change
The Transformations, a new novel by Australian author Andrew Pippos
Vale William Munro, AKA Billy Wiz, Bondi Junction personality
Authors claim Salesforce used their novels to train AI agents
Eight out of ten coffee drinkers prefer instant over drip
Tasma Walton, Robbie Arnott, jointly win ARA Historical Novel Prize
Every blog has a yelling dumbass reader
Socialising leads to longer life, but what about introverts?
Vale Diane Keaton, star of Annie Hall, First Wives Club, and many more
ISP customer hompages lists, the first web directories of the early web
Robotic self-driving vehicles a threat to gig-economy food delivery work
NASA plans to send four people around the Moon in 2026
In the end days of Windows 10, Windows 7 enjoys a resurgence
Vale Patricia Routledge: Mrs Bucket has left the building
Trailer for One More Shot, a time travel comedy by Nicholas Clifford, with Emily Browning
Michelle de Kretser, Rick Morton, among 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners
Windows 10 support extended free for some users but only delays inevitable
A loophole for surviving the heat-death of the universe, or a noose?
Comment spammers use AI in another assault on bloggers
Tim Berners-Lee: the web needs to return to its roots
V Sagittae nova might outshine Antares, Betelgeuse supernovas
Time Alone, a short horror film by Rod Blackhurst
Microsoft to pay some publishers for content used by AI agents
Answer engines: a new challenge for content writers, bloggers
Download your TypePad blog and post the content to a new website
Subscribe Openly, and (almost) one-click RSS feed subscriptions
The Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival, 3-5 October 2025
Online freelance marketplace Fiverr aspires to be an ‘AI-first’ company
Australian social media age verification laws: you might need to prove your age
The last days of social media, or wishful thinking?
Death by a thousand cuts: the AI scraper indexing one blog post at a time
Climate change making El Nino and La Nina harder to forecast