Montreal Tech Watch

While I was writing those articles, it struck me how practical for me (and the reader) they are. It’s an objective list of what’s up in Montréal, and could get people in the lopp, without necessarily reading long reviews or without me spending one hour or more to write an article.

In the age of Twitter, friendfeed, never-ending flood of emails, and activity streams on every new website, where everyone’s attention span is now in minutes instead of hours, I think this is a very good format that should now be on MTW. It’s the sort of thing you’d read in the morning, with tidbits of what’s up about technology or startups in town. See it as me being a curator, and it will be then up to you to follow links and get your own opinion about a particular piece of news.

One added advantage is that much more technologies, events, startups, and entrepreneurs can be highlighted on MTW thanks to this new feature. This is important since I think everyone should have an equal opportunity, regardless if they’re backed from a big VC fund, or if it’s just a programmer who is working alone “in his garage”.

Send a tweet at @mtw if you want to spread a community news, an event, a new job listing, new features for a product or a web service, updates on key people, or major blog posts. I won’t rely 100% on Twitter to get information, since they are many other sources, but Twitter has the replies tab which is handy for later reference, without necessarily the engagement you need in emails.

Of course, long articles and reviews are still going to be part of the blog if there’s a new major startup launch or a new major event coming up.

Open up the firehose then!