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  • Doritos, User-Generated Content, and My Continued Fascination With Digital Media

    For the past year + I’ve been fascinated with the disruption that’s digital introducing to traditional media’s value chain. Seriously - we’re living in interesting times.
    Democratizing the hit. Competing on content. The decline of ‘blockbusters’. It’s happening in publishing and it’s happening in music. It’s happening in every media market that digital is penetrating. […]

  • 6 Word Story

    Via Caterina:
    Ernest Hemingway was once prodded to compose a complete story in six words. His answer, personally felt to be his best prose ever, was “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” Some people say it was to settle a bar bet. Others say it was a personal challenge directed at other famous authors.
    I came […]

  • Updated Wordpress

    And I’m not terribly happy. Now, when I use the !–more– command to get a cleaner homepage it also cuts off my RSS feed forcing users to click through to the site.
    What a bummer.
    From what I can see there isn’t a way to change this option. Anyone have input/suggestions?

  • What to do With Wikipedia (or, There’s Nothing Wrong With Profit)

    Wikipedia has three months to live. Or maybe it doesn’t.
    The debate around the situation reinforces my belief that those who have an altruistic view of the internet - viewing it as a deity charged with fixing the world through a series of tubes - incorrectly associate profit with evil.
    Here’s the (simple) thing: they’re wrong. […]

February

This is the archive for February, 2007.

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Hi, I'm Fraser and this is my personal site where I write about the things I'm interested in: start-up strategy, the web, music, and life.

My days are spent commercializing emerging technologies. Currently I'm helping to deliver the promise of semantic web to the consumer market at AdaptiveBlue. Previously I was at Trivaris, a Canadian seed stage investment firm.

I am a co-founder of Innovation Night, a community driven event supporting entrepreneurship in Canadian and US cities.

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