Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 16 August
Tweet with a little respect
Just over six years ago Jack Dorsey sent his first message on what you might, at the time, have wanted to call a “microblog”.
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Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Tuesday 26 October
The Kremlin: worms and all
When Dmitry Zelenin, the governor of Tver Region, was at a Kremlin reception with President Dmitry Medvedev recently, he was shocked to find a worm in his salad.
Affairs / Media
Briefing Oceania
Samoa mounts operation healthcare and the truth about those fit Aussies - they are actually too busy on twitter to play sport.
Affairs / Urbanism
Americas briefing
Mexico City's taxi fleet plans to go green, all change at Chattanooga, and how Twitter is helping track the spread of illness through cities.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 25 September
Chávez, the tweeting president
Celebrities have used it to gossip, activists have used it to inform of uprisings, but only Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has used Twitter to govern.
Culture / Media
New media circus
It seems that every news presenter has a blog or Twitter feed – but post personal opinions at your peril. Monocle investigates the pleasures and sorrows of social media in the news.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Tuesday 4 January
Shanghai: Forecast 2011: China's uneasy relationship with the internet
In China, the mourning period for Twitter was as brief as a tweet. Only weeks after the government blocked the microblogging service in the summer of 2009, one of China’s leading web portals, Sina, unveiled a clone to take…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 23 January
Could the Jasmine Revolution spread to Egypt?
If Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak thought that his country was insulated from last week’s remarkable events in nearby Tunisia, a quick glance at Twitter would have set him straight.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 24 June
Chisinau: the real media revolution is underway
In April last year, Moldova made international headlines when its exotically-titled “Twitter Revolution” triggered an election rerun, toppling the Communist party from power after eight long years.
End Point / Media
Observation
Who needs Twitter when you’ve got a network of shops around the world? Our retail outlets are proving to be better forums for debate than any social network – a case in point is the great response we’ve received to our…
Business / Aviation
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 November
Public relations sometimes work better minus the public
It would be a brave person who attempted, right now, to reassure Qantas CEO Alan Joyce with the adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
Affairs / Society
Most unwanted
Welcome to Monocle’s annual round-up of 20 people who we think deserve a bigger stage. We cover diverse professions from shoe designers to politicians because we believe it’s not only the grand scale that matters, but the…
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 23 May
Death of the super-injunction
The dynamic of unintended consequence is often hilarious, and always instructive. In Britain in the last few weeks, Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs has become the latest public figure to learn the hard way that…
Affairs / Music
Monocolumn
Sunday 28 March
Kenya’s new pop video hero
His name is Makmende. An African version of Shaft, mixed with a bit of Chuck Norris, he is the karate-chopping, damsel-rescuing star of the new video by Kenya’s Just-a-Band.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Saturday 20 March
Naked ambition
The ancient Jewish leader Hillel once famously asked: “If not now, when?” More than 2,000 years later, a group of five young Israeli college students is embracing this maxim to help give a new – and decidedly risqué –…
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 March
Let’s try to keep this brief
Hemingway’s greatest work wasn’t a book. Not For Whom the Bell Tolls. Not even A Farewell to Arms. It was a devastatingly short story. Just six words long, in fact.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 3 May
The pitfalls of political chest-puffing
In the ancient poem Beowulf, the eponymous hero went about the Scandinavian countryside battling dragons and beasts and sharing his bold exploits with all who would listen.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Wednesday 10 August
UK Riots Part 1: Politicians vascillate and hesitate wording a response
Now that much of the dust has settled (not that the scars have healed), a note on the words used in the riot-heat of this week.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 20 April
Building consensus for a change in stalking laws
Last week saw the launch of the UK’s inaugural National Stalking Awareness Week.