Anil Dash…Anil Who?
Yeah, some of you are that clueless, but it’s ok, I’ll educate you real quick. Anil Dash is probably one of the greatest bloggers of all time, second greatest, ok maybe third, but he is, in my personal opinion one of the greats. Now sure, some of his posts are all business oriented and a way to market some of sixaparts products, but when you read his personal blog, you automatically know this guy is a hardcore blogger, simple as that.
Now, Anil has been blogging for almost a freaking decade, that’s a long ass time to be blogging, part of the reason why he’s up there with the best, shit 10 years ago I was surfing all day and riding my motorbike wondering how i’m going to nab my dads credit card this time. So what is this all about, really it’s a reply to one of Anil’s tweets. No shit, no I know he could care less about this, so I’ll go on and not even direct any of it at him personally, just my thoughts on this comment;
Dressed up and looking sharp, went to a great restaurant with good friends. Being grown up beats the *hell* out of being young and broke. 07:55 PM September 06, 2008 from web
Ok, let me just state something real quick, dressing up, and looking sharp to go out with good friends is truly something I love to do, heck who doesn’t right? So that’s obviously not what bothers me with Anil’s tweet (which I know is his own personal opinion and should not bother me, though it does, so as it’s a public tweet, and probably read by tons who I doubt had the nuggets to comment on, I shall, because to be honest, yeah i’ve been there and know how some would feel).
What bugs me is the next part that states; Being grown up beats the *hell* out of being young and broke. Now before some of you start with the ‘oh im so fucking smart’ comment, and point out that anil was most likely referring to a state he was in before ‘growing up, making money and what not’ let me point out that to many, it does not read like that. Rub it in their faces, something I do sometimes but not like that I guess.
Anil, no hard feelings, I’m just putting this out there for some of my forum members to comment on rather than crowed up the prvt sections with Anil did this and Anil did that, seriously, take it out on here, because I’ll promise you he’ll see this, he’s good like that.
Anil is a cool guy, cool friend, says it how it is, and lives in New York too now, so it’s all cool. I just think somewhat public figures, like Anil, should watch some of the things they say, hey im not getting in his face about what he’s free to say and not say, just giving ‘my’ opinion, which you’re all welcome to drill holes in if you like 
I mean the comment above is not the same thing as reviewing Yahoos new mailing servers or whatever the heck it was anil was doing there, think he just doesn’t like Canadians that much 
I can’t blame him tbh!
I’ve told Jeremy, Marcus and HaRRo about this, as well as others, when you have a large following online, watch how you go about it, show that much respect to the people that keep your jobs alive, to those that respect you and give you a reason to blog and be online. Anil, you’re a stand up sort of guy, wicked personality and an all round nifty blogger, i just had to get some of those guys out the ‘anil dash does it again’ threads
December 31st, 1969 at 5:00 pm
I am young and sometimes broke, it’s not great but it’s life you know?
You mike make good money and are young, yet you don’t come out saying how much being young and broke sucks like you’re better than us, maybe that’s why harro and jeff got annoyed of that tweet and made threads about it. Anil is pro and twitter is personal so they shouldnt be too bothered of it i think
September 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Anil is VP of the big ego company, what more is there to say. They do what they want how they want. They hire like minded people. Why else would he have lasted this long there I don’t know why you like this guy Mike, he’s arrogant, and really knows little about anything other than how to blog. The guy is a michael jackson fan?! come on.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Mike i agree and disagree. You live in New York too, you have what a frd edge? ‘08 mustang and nissan 350z by my last count?? you’re not even 30 yet and you sure do brag unintentionally. Then on the other hand you go out of your way to back up your friends online, like that loopfuse issue a while back, taking the guy to court almost over bashing someone online, that takes guts, and money, (smirk).
Anil is a public figure, granted he has the right to his personal rants online like you, he should realize most of what he makes public gets read by fans and loyal readers, that’s obvious. Maybe as someone in his position, he should take more time in thinking out what he’s makes public, just because he’s at that level where people really do care about what he has to say, even if he does not realize it. I for one have been following him for over 3 years now, about the same time I started following you about Mike, knew about him through one of your real old post on rjk. Then again, he might not care less, which should be ok too, his right to do whatever he wants in his spare time and we just have to respect that I guess.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
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September 8th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
What often bugs me about these comments is the whole “you need to grow up” talk implying that we somehow have to change the way we are. Some people may have to, others do what they want and still make it. To each their own. Sure there are some people out there who either change or be nothing forever, but you can’t generalize it. You grow up too much, you wind up being 50 sitting in some cubicle with a boss half your age who decided to make it his way.
Is like they say.
You will never be old and wise, if you’ve never been young and crazy.
And btw. Anil also won the first SEO contest ever, but I know you guys knew this.
Mike
September 8th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
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September 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
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September 8th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Heh, I’m not sure how much of this is just baiting me to respond, but I went out for dinner with a group of my friends, and was just appreciating that the life I have is really good now. Not a criticism of anybody else, but of course once you get enough people reading your twitters, people can interpret it however they want.
Frankly, if people want to find the negative in 140 characters, they’re going to do so no matter what I say. I’m assuming if people judge me by instead by meeting me, or at least from the literally hundreds of thousands of words I’ve published over the years on my blog, they might get a fuller picture.
HaRRo, I’d love to know more about your assertion that I’m a VP of a “big ego company”. Please feel free to shoot me an email to anil@dashes.com if you have time — I am genuinely curious about what informs your opinion there, and would love to find out more.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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September 8th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Same old shit, different day hey Anil? You’re sticking with the wrong crowed Anil, Mike is well respected in the BH SEO community, he speaks highly of you, so do many others, shame your wasting it all on SixApart, you technorati stalker
Let me put it this way, the kindest way I know how. You care more about that initial user payment on TypePad for example than you do them sticking around. Its a SixApart thing, just like Vox is as useless a CMS as…a useless cms.
Oh and working with MT or TP is like yanking teeth with pliers Anil, and you know it. Yet you have not done anything to change that since the launch of the MT licensing
Please don’t copy paste the same crap you slam any negative post with and say how most software has bugs and usability problems or just new features or improvements that need to be made because you have been telling everyone that for god knows how long now. It’s starting to bug a lot of us how you feed your bs jargon and they fall for it. WE the USERS made sixapart what is it, you think instigating one argument such as this can’t snowball out of hand and turn into a slap in the face?
For the millionth time, why don’t you guys listen to those complaining rather than dismiss them. You know very well you’re not just replying here to correct people and enlighten them, you never do when a comment is posted about your beloved company, you just play with that god given talent of yours to spew out words in hopes of enticing people who don’t know better to try your products out. Conducting yourself in a professional manner? ha. right, good on you.
Oh and answer me this Anil, please, what is vox other than a bunch of cute templates? And why does SA never release stats like WP does for example?
If you reply to this, you’ll probably reply to points you can answer and overlook ones that show you guys for what you really are. Then again you might play that Ace of Spades and chant about agreeing that there’s always more work to be done, which never gets done. Maybe because you guys are making enough not to give a shit what people have to say? Get them to pay, drop them off the side of a bridge tomorrow, is that not SA’s real motto Anil? Go on, admit it.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:34 am
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September 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
http://www.lastfm.es/user/anildash
Dang, Anil. Your taste in music is something else.
Number 9 George Michael?