Is it me, or is it becoming harder and harder to come up with an original idea? I mean, the next time you think you have one, start Googling. Chances are, you’re going to find other ideas that are strikingly similar to your own. They might even have a Wikipedia page. Maybe it’s because people [...]
You know how almost everyone is good for a at least a few great ideas in their time? Well, what’s the cloud going to do to that? Now, people can share everything all the time. And it’s all on record. So it becomes really hard to say anything that hasn’t been said before — never [...]
Last night was a special summer edition of Third Tuesday Montreal. There were three presentations, in the style of Pecha Kucha (20 slides, 20 second each, for a total of 6min 40sec) and I had the pleasure of opening for Julien Smith and Sylvain Grand’Maison. The title of my presentation was Cloudvertising: Social Media and [...]
The root problem facing newspapers (and other mainstream publishers) isn’t so much falling ad revenues. That’s just a symptom of a greater problem. The bigger problem facing mainstream publishers is that ad technology hasn’t caught up with content technology. Right now, there are so many ways to publish and distribute content. But there really aren’t [...]
