Byteside Podcast
Can beer be more efficient?
Konvoy is quietly making beer move from brewers to bars in a far smarter and more sustainable way. We chat to the founder to find out more.
Seamus Byrne
Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.
More "freedom from", please
Why did "freedom to" advocates become so focused on punching down?
Games
Is the DGTO really going to help?
We chat to R&D tax incentive expert Ben Thompson from Techlever about the Digital Games Tax Offset and some of the issues he'd like to see addressed ahead of its introduction.
Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea
Does that retweet you said you loved still say what it said when you retweeted it?
Search engines are dying
The optimisers are outwitting the engines. Now it's easy to find 'something' but hard to find a specific thing.
Just because we can...
Dyson's new air purifier raises big questions about form, function, and the just plain freaky.
Media
A cultural event horizon
Twitter showed its best and worst during the Smith/Rock Oscars incident.
Bad laws ignored badly
One year on, the News Media Bargaining Code has failed to stand up for those who needed it most.
Media
Exploring the Backrooms
William Gibson's 'The Footage' meets a horror liminal space meme and I love it.
Cringe du jour
The memes are on the attack, but happiness has other ideas.
Emailing through the info wars
The digital iron curtain can't hold back manual messaging systems
Gear
Apple AirPods are on Amazon at their best prices yet
Both AirPods and AirPods Pro are seeing significant discounts on Amazon, making it a great time to buy.