Comments by Anil Dash

Thread over. Erik wins.

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Mark, the next time you want to accuse someone of not having a sense of humor, you may wish to do so on a page that doesn't also include an embedded video featuring literally hundreds of people laughing at a series of lines that I improvised on the fly. But please, next time I'm in Seattle, let's do go out to an amateur hour at a comedy club and see which of us has a sense of humor, shall we?

Take a look at the Wikipedia page about me, which lists a series of gags I've done over the years. Now granted, you may have a better sense of humor than me on some areas, judging by the design of markdamonhughes.com, but while I think there are many fair criticisms that could be leveled at me, "lacks a sense of humor" is just an absurd assertion.

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"But I've most often used it for situations where obtuse behemoth companies fail to get the ironic multifaceted disconnect around what they are doing in providing a service or product. The FAIL to me makes sense to me in that context."

And what I'm saying is -- *somebody* at that company probably gets it and wants to do the right thing. But changing the culture at a big company takes time, and all shouting "FAIL!" accomplishes is to make that clueful person (who actually follows their presence in social media) feel bad, while all their coworkers continue on, blissfully unaware of your criticism.

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Bebo has had "friendly URLs" and usernames since it launched. Before AOL ever owned it so the last prediction makes no sense.

I know Bebo has that feature. That doesn't seem to contradict my prediction, though.

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Best of all, Mike, you can help make so much of that timeline come true.

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Oh shit, good call, Adrian. I think the idea that newspapers will ask their reporters to get Facebook names should be the free space on the bingo card. We could also make a free spot for "company files frivolous lawsuit over alleged trademark infringement in Facebook Username URL."

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Lisa, we’re thrilled that your talents are being recognized in being asked to contribute another title that helps people get the most out of blogging. It’s a generous act to devote so much time to educating other people about how to express themselves, and hopefully writing TypePad for Dummies will be rewarding in every way possible.

Here’s hoping you do lots more TypePad *and* WordPress writing in the future — the blogging community needs us all working together to encourage each other.

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Aaron, it was an honor to be invited, and a pleasure to meet so many passionate, excited people in the community. You should take a huge amount of credit and satisfaction in the event being such a success — conferences like these often reflect the people who help organize them. WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, despite having the worst hashtag ever ;) was inclusive, enthusiastic, and informative. It’s a great complement to you that the event you helped steer reflects the same values that you do.

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To some degree, Melvin, that’s what’s interesting about TypePad Connect — it lets people sign in with Google or Facebook or Yahoo or AOL or any OpenID. Maybe we should have called it “Uber-Connect”!

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Leena, thanks for covering the story! It was a pleasure to talk about the new plugins today — though we’ve had a number of Six Apart folks attend over the years, this was my first WordCamp, so that was a lot of fun.

I think the big point here is that, though we’re eager to compete with Automattic with all the work we do on our platforms, there’s also a nice way for the WordPress community to benefit from the huge amount of innovation and investment we put into our platforms.

The best thing today for me was to see how many people at WordCamp were just regular WordPress users who really liked what we’re doing at Six Apart and wanted to be part of it. I think that’s just a response to the idea that we can make stuff that’s good for blogging and good for the web as a whole, and that there’s a vision that’s bigger than any one piece of software.

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The East River is very clean these days. It’s still busy enough with shipping traffic that most people don’t swim in it, but I see people fishing there every day, and many eat their catch. Let’s not perpetuate outdated ideas about the level of pollution of particular flows.

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[this is good] This post is so good I'm going to keep it forever in my favorites.

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I think the taking-your-wife-along thing is a big part of it, along with the fact that we've grown up. I was always a little skeptical about this Dreams of My Father stuff, but I will begrudgingly concede there may be something to it. :)

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I think Pat is on to me. :)

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And now somebody’s going to build a Farecast-style site for buying digital media. Genius!

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