GenAI as the ultimate platform, or a dystopian scenario for media
January 27, 2025Here’s an interesting thing to think about: what happens if generative AI platforms become the main interface for humans to access information? And more narrowly, what would it mean for media and journalism?
On media business models, old and new
January 22, 2025Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief John Micklethwait wrote a great piece recently with a series of predictions of the main changes AI will bring to journalism. I think he actually missed one important thing that’s rather dystopian — but I’ll try to write a longer post about it tomorrow.
Jonathan Coulton and the challenge of finding new good music
December 31, 2024I only recently found out that the Portal credits song (Still Alive) and the old-but-funny Re: Your Brains are actually written by the same person, that’s Jonathan Coulton.
Microsoft is (kind of) blaming the EU after the CrowdStrike disaster
July 26, 2024Last week, it felt like entire countries and industries came to a grinding halt due to an update of the CrowdStrike software package that caused 8.5 million Windows PCs across the world to enter into the infamous Blue Screen of Death. With all kinds of companies having experienced lengthy outages (and many of them are still suffering from issues), the situation doesn’t look good for CrowdStrike or for Microsoft, even though it wasn’t the direct fault of the latter.
Pirate Summit, one last time
June 29, 2023Seven years ago, in 2016, I entered the scrapeyard-turned-event venue that’s Odonien for the first time to attend that year’s Pirate Summit. To be entirely honest, I remember very little from the event, and I’ve only got a handful of photos of Fred Destin and the Burn on my phone to refresh my memory.
Can (and should) you actually record a podcast interview on Zoom?
November 19, 2021When I first took over the Tech.eu Podcast in 2018, one of the first decisions I made was that I’d only record interviews online in absolutely exceptional circumstances. Almost of my interviews from that and next year had been recorded in person, and there’s a whole bunch of reasons for that.
Personal news time: I'm leaving Tech.eu
November 01, 2021One of my first Tech.eu team photos — January 2019, Brussels So, long story short — it’s been a great three-year-long ride, but this coming Friday (November 5) is my last day at Tech.eu. It’s a bittersweet feeling I’m leaving the company with, and I’m sure the recent acquisition by Webrazzi will give Tech.eu a huge boost — but this is something I’ll be watching from the sideline.