About

Hi, I'm Anil Dash. I'm a blogger, entrepreneur and geek living in NYC. By day, I'm a Vice President at Six Apart, the global blogging company which I helped start. Six Apart makes TypePad and Movable Type, great tools that help power sites from Britney to Barack, and great publications like the Washington Post and the Huffington Post.

Dashes.com is my personal website, founded ten years ago as one of the earliest blogs on the web. (The Houston Chronicle has called me a "legendary blogger", which I think was meant as a joke, but is still pretty pleasing.) Over the years, I've been featured in newspapers and magazines from the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal to Wired, appeared on TV and radio from PBS and NPR to the BBC and ABC, had my works displayed in the New Museum of Contemporary Art, spoken at universities from NYU to Columbia to UC Berkeley to MIT, and been acknowledged in serious books like Chris Anderson's The Long Tail, Don Tapscott's Wikinomics and Lawrence Lessig's Remix. Just as importantly, I've popped up in silly books like I Can Has Cheezburger? and Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle. And perhaps most appropriately, I've also been fortunate enough to be linked to by thousands of blogs all across the web.

• Below you'll find a brief biography of me. (There's also an idiosyncratic Wikipedia page about me.)
• Contact me via email at anil@dashes.com for more information, or reach me by phone at +1 646 541 5843 and via instant message to anildash.

Personal Info

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, and most recent articles mentioning Six Apart are available on the Six Apart press page. Some highlights:

• An extensive video segment on PBS from January 2003
• A profile in New York magazine from November 2003
• A Wired News story from July 2004
• This New York Times piece from June 2005
• Featured articles in the September 2006 and March 2007 issues of Wired
• A video feature in Rocketboom's coverage of "Battledecks" in 2008
• A New York magazine roundtable from June 2009 

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:

Anil Dash is a pioneering blogger and Chief Evangelist at Six Apart Ltd, where he's played a formative role in helping create the world's leading blogging company. Dash is a recognized expert on web technology, web culture and the software industry, having founded one of the earliest and most popular weblogs on the Internet, which was named one of MSNBC's "Best of Blogs". A frequent keynote speaker, Dash has given presentations around the world about the future of social communication online and the relationship between social and traditional media.

Dash is frequently featured in media including the the Washington Post, Wired, MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, 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 classes at 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 joining Six Apart as its first employee, 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.