Authors
Mic Wright
Mic Wright is a contributing editor to The Kernel.
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Column How I learned to stop worrying and love the Buzzfeed
Mic Wright on the success of Buzzfeed and why newspapers are struggling to adapt to the digital revolution. More »
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Essay The need for better handcuffs
3D printers and feckless customer service people are two of the biggest threats to our security. Mic Wright ponders the future of passwords and keys. More »
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Essay What Nostradamus says about Facebook
Predictions are a frustrating business. Mic Wright explains what Stanley Kubrick, Nostradamus and The Pet Shop Boys can tell you about Facebook's future. More »
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Subscriber Content Erm… what are you doing, Dick?
'Nice app you’ve got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it...' More »
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Essay The one per cent web
Mic Wright detects a sea change occurring in web publishing but wonders whether that will be a clean slate or just a nice new earner for the few. More »
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Column It’s toxic, but you’re stuck with it
It's miserable, it's unsatisfying and you never asked for it... but social media is here to stay. Mic Wright on why big brands are mad to opt out of the customer service channel of the future. More »
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Editor's Pick Social media’s ‘reverse gentrification’
Paid Twitter alternative App.net is a private members' club for the effete and entitled, writes Mic Wright. More »
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Column How my Olympics lie lapped the globe
Mic Wright is astonished how gullible journalists can be about what they read on social networks. More »
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Column Irrational demands for excellence
Mic Wright wonders if we shouldn't give the likes of Apple and Pixar a break. Would we give champion athletes such a relentlessly hard time after every performance? More »
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Subscriber Content Starbucks is Square’s back door to Apple
Following Starbuck's partnership with Square in the US, Mic Wright puts on his medium turban and shares his belief in a future Apple acquisition. More »
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Report Samsung: power, corruption and lies
Mic Wright wonders why Samsung isn't more closely scrutinised, given the company's chequered past and allegations made against its ruling family's professional ethics. More »
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Editor's Pick Platforms: the cheque book and the cosh
Mic Wright wonders why anyone in their right mind would pin the future success of their business on technology platforms that have proven themselves to be capricious, greedy and short-termist. More »
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Editor's Pick Did Louise Mensch simply get sick of paperwork?
Could Louise Mensch have juggled her personal and professional responsibilities, if the processes of Parliament were more up to date? Mic Wright says yes. More »
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Column Stop Press!
Mic Wright is gobsmacked that a Guardian journalist has taken issue with the Daily Mail. More »
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Obituary Patron saint of snark
Mic Wright on the life of the late Gore Vidal. More »
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Column Sorry, Twitter, but you can’t have it both ways
Twitter is to free speech what McDonalds is to vegetarianism, but Twitter users have no right to bleat about journalists being silenced while preaching intolerance themselves, says Mic Wright. More »
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Editor's Pick Wake up, hacks: this isn’t utopia
Mic Wright reports on the state of Olympic media coverage, asking why the media has performed such an abrupt volte face and forgotten about censorship and free speech abuses by LOCOG. More »
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Column The newspaper boss and the Twitter witchhunt
Mic Wright is amused by media companies that think censorship is still effective in the internet era. More »
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Column The terrifying face of today’s online fandom
Mic Wright explains how the internet is turning fans into fanatics. More »
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Column Batman: a lesson for entrepreneurs
Mic Wright thinks there's a lesson to be learned from the Dark Knight about the entrepreneurial lifestyle. More »