About a year ago, I wrote an article here on DT analyzing the high-def DVD war and predicting an eventual win for Blu-ray.  Despite the fact that I was completely and totally correct, I am not here to brag (although I won’t pass up the opportunity, either).  In the course of that article, I poked some fun at the world of technology analysts:

So, here’s the part where I play “tech analyst,” which is to say that I will make something up and present it to you as fact. I will even put it into blurb form so that newspapers can use it and quote me as an expert.

Ironically, it seems that this has worked far better than I had imagined.  For reasons I won’t get into, I was recently visiting the online directory site ZoomInfo.  While I was there, I decided to have a little fun and search for my own name, just to see what might come up.  Among the accurate results was this tidbit:

Now, to be fair, they use some kind of automatic crawler bot to aggregate a lot of their information, which appears to pretty much take at face value anything it is told.¹ I agree that this is a good idea, as we all know that the Internet contains only 100% truth.² I hereby heartily endorse ZoomInfo as a fine purveyor of factual information, and look forward to seeing my new title “James Viviani, President of the United States.”

¹Much like Tom Cruise.↩

²I prefer the “pulp-free” kind, but I understand you can also get it with a splash of various other juices.↩