Andrew Gouty

Going on three years ago Josh Mitchell pitched me on the idea of ‘Pivots’ – a professional wingman or wingwoman – I’m pretty sure the title is gender specific to female, and doubly sure that the Urban Dictionary could clear up my confusion, should I want to verify my memory’s guesswork. I honestly didn’t give [...]

I have no idea whether that is true or not, but given the infrequent use of my own ‘.com’ and the nature of this post – it’s fitting. The first part of this year I’ve been concerned with updating my company’s (Rella Group) image and portrayal online. Fresh content, new face, better description of our [...]

It’s all the latest rage to hate on Facebook, and it happens about once a year it seems – that some minor or major UI changes that Facebook implements tend to piss everyone off in some minor or major way. That’s not what this post is about.

Over the last few weeks I’ve started to see ads crop up for a service called Straight Talk. The one that initially grabbed my attention was that of a woman getting caught up in the background of an elderly couple’s photo moment, then mistaking them for paparazzi and shredding the film roll out of the [...]

First of all, catch up Spell Check, because unfriend is definitely a proper option for my grammar. Defriend? No? Well bugger off then. So far this year, my number of friends on Facebook has either stayed the same or shrank, largely because I have gone through and systematically cleaned people out, about a dozen at [...]