Rick Pitino is an idiot. Let me be clear that I have no insight into the highly successful basketball coach’s IQ, and I certainly don’t mean the statement literally. But speaking off the cuff and...
Learn MoreThis one, as my hipster son would say, is gonna be weird. Back in the days when I was a journalist, one of the people I worked with from time to time was Gina Smith. I remember a conversation that Gina and I...
Learn MoreOne of the ways we practice Influency at Answer Guy Central is by pointing back at the things we’ve said here over time. Part of that is self-promotional (“look how smart we are!!!“), and...
Learn MoreYesterday in Everybody Being A Handyman, I wrote about the impact well-executed SmartPhone software can have on our lives, and more broadly on employment markets. The change in employment structure...
Learn MoreThere’s a not-small part of me that dreams about getting off the business change and business Influency treadmill and become an activist of some sort. And while most of what I write here is targeted at...
Learn MoreLast time out I promised an explanation of Google’s new Hummingbird Search Algorithm. As with most changes Google makes to how we find things and make sure people can find us, Hummingbird is a big deal...
Learn MoreSay hello to Lacey. Or Miss Lollipop. Come to think of it, it doesn’t really matter which of her stage names you use, because The New York Times ran an article about this naked young woman last week....
Learn MoreWhen we started throwing around the word Influency, we we trying to describe what we do at Answer Guy Central. Are we business consultants? Marketing people? Really good techno-weenies? The answer to any of...
Learn MoreWhy Make Trillions When We Can Make … Billions? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, despite the identical hair style and similar bent on world domination, is way smarter than Dr. Evil. Today, The Man Who Will...
Learn MoreIf there’s ever been an area where Influency matters, it’s video games. Once you have someone locked into your ecosystem they tend to stay unless something absolutely remarkable happens. Microsoft...
Learn MoreGo ahead, pirate Game of Thrones. Seriously, I mean it. The CEO of Time Warner just went on the record as believing that the HBO series being downloaded and redistributed ad infinitum, even by people who...
Learn MoreA lot of years ago, even before I was The Computer Answer Guy, I was … well I was the Computer Answer Guy, but we didn’t call it that. This was a very different time; people spent thousands of...
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