Anil Dash
Anil Dash | |
|---|---|
 Anil Dash at SCS 2007 | |
| Born | 1975 |
| Occupation | Blogger, Chief Evangelist for Six Apart, Ltd. |
| Website | |
| http://www.dashes.com/anil/ | |
Anil Dash (pronounced [ɑ'nil 'dæʃ], born in September 1975) is an early and influential blogger who began his weblog in 1999.
Previously an independent technology consultant, and a new media developer for the Village Voice, Dash was the first employee of, and now works as a Vice President (Chief Evangelist) for, Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, and owners of LiveJournal[1].
In 2003, Dash was one of four bloggers featured on the PBS series Media Matters.
Dash was born and grew up near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A long-time resident and vocal fan of New York City, he lived in San Francisco for a time but has now returned to New York City. Aside from his professional role at Six Apart, Dash participated in two prank-like activities that gained attention on the Internet: in 2004, he was the winner of the "nigritude ultramarine" search engine optimization contest, and in 2005 he appeared in a Threadless t-shirt mentioning the web site Goatse.cx which was printed in the New York Times.
He likes emergent knowledge and has a fondness for titles with 50 words in them.
External links
- Anil Dash's weblog
- About Anil Dash
- under the iron interview
- Blogosphere - Media Matters episode
- Interview with Anil Dash, Leahpeah, 2006-09-07