About Anil Dash

Hi, I'm Anil Dash. I'm a blogger, entrepreneur and geek living in NYC, and the Director of Expert Labs.

Dashes.com is my personal website, founded ten years ago as one of the earliest blogs on the web. (I think the Houston Chronicle was half-joking when they called me a "legendary blogger", but it's still pretty nice.) I was also the first employee at Six Apart, the global blogging company which makes TypePad and Movable Type, and which helped inspire the revolution we've seen in the media world over the past few years. 

I love the web and its ability to help us communicate better, and my career has been about finding ways to put that power in everyone's hands. The web's fun and idiosyncratic culture is a tremendous inspiration for me, and I endeavor to put it to positive use in improving people's lives. And it's been incredibly humbling and exciting to see the connections I've made in my career on the web take me everywhere from the top of the Empire State Building to the White House, from across the web to around the world.

Over the past decade, my work's been acknowledged on TV and radio, in newspapers and magazines, and even put on display in a few museums, as you can see in my full bio. I've popped up in serious books like Chris Anderson's The Long Tail, Don Tapscott's Wikinomics, Lawrence Lessig's Remix and Scott Rosenberg's Say Everything. And it's just as important to me that I've participated in the more fun aspects of web culture, earning acknowledgments in silly books like I Can Has Cheezburger? and Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle. Perhaps most appropriately, I've also been fortunate enough to be linked to by thousands of blogs all across the web, leading being named one of the top ten most influential people in NYC, according to NowPublic. I've also been fortunate to draw attention to some of my independent projects like Last Year's Model, which advocates getting the most out of the gadgets and technologies that we consume.

Personal Info

• Contact me via email at anil@dashes.com for more information, or reach me by phone at +1 646 833 8659 or via instant message to anildash. You can follow me on Twitter as @anildash as well.
• I live in New York City with a dog, a cat, and a human, each of which is the ultimate representative of her respective species.
• You might want to check out what I've written — I have archives of my best writing and my most popular writing.

Selected Press/Media

You can see a list of recent press mentions and quotes on Google News or see published mentions of me on this Amazon.com Search. Some highlights:

• A featured set of video interviews by Big Think from August 2009
• A quote in the New York Times Sunday Magazine's "On Language" column from August 2009
• A New York magazine roundtable from June 2009
• A video feature in Rocketboom's coverage of "Battledecks" in 2008
• Featured articles in the September 2006 and March 2007 issues of Wired
• This New York Times piece from June 2005
• A Wired News story from July 2004
• A profile in New York magazine from November 2003
• An extensive video segment on PBS from January 2003

A large-format photo of Anil in multiple resolutions is available, courtesy of Merlin Mann. Also available is a 1000 x 800 camera-ready photo courtesy of James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, and a 3916 x 2634 JPEG image freely licensed from Wikipedia .

Standard biography:

Feel free to use the following biography for mentions in print or online, and edit as desired.

Anil Dash is a pioneering blogger whose site at Dashes.com was founded in 1999 as one of the earliest and most influential blogs on the Internet. Dash also played a formative role as Chief Evangelist at Six Apart Ltd, where he joined as the first employee at the world's leading blogging company. Dash is a recognized expert on web technology, web culture and the software industry, delivering frequent keynote presentations around the world about the future of social communication online, the relationship between social and traditional media, and the use of technology for social and cultural advancement.

Dash is frequently featured in media including the the Washington Post, Wired, MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, BBC, NPR and on television, radio, print and blogs around the world. His works have been showcased in museums including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and he has addressed universities including UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Journalism, Columbia University's School of Journalism, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to his professional work, Dash has received notice for his role in popularizing web culture in mainstream media venues ranging from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to the Houston Chronicle, which labeled him a "legendary blogger". He is also a member of the Web 2.0 Expo NYC advisory board.

Prior to his work with blogging and the social web, Dash worked in online communications and technology development for the publishing and music industries. Dash lives in New York City with his wife Alaina Browne, a noted pioneer in the world of online food media. His personal blog can be found online at dashes.com.