Dude, for real? You sold a weblogs company to AOL -- who everyone in tech knows are morons. No one gives props to Powerset either. They found a bigger fool too.

I mean, you founded MAHALO, the pets.com of the 00's. Zero tech, zero innovation, just slaves. "Mahalo everyone!" You have invented and created nothing in your life.

Seriously, you are an ant running up an elephant's leg with rape on its mind. Zeldman is FAR beyond you technically. Zeldman is to web standards what Picasso is to modernism and what you are to tabloid journalism.

Mahalo actually is paying hundreds of contributors hundreds of thousands of dollars a year at this point (since we launched Mahalo 2.0 in June). We're creating a lot of work/income for unemployed folks all across the country and we're proud of that. There are no slave... just folks doing good work and doing well for themselves.

In terms of technology you would be surprised. Our Answer product is the most advanced on the planet right now, and when you see Mahalo 3.0 in December you'll be fairly impressed I think.

On the subject of Weblogs, Inc. one of the insider pieces of information you might not know is that we built the most advanced blog publishing software at the time (called Blogsmith), which AOL also bought. It's the highly scalable, group publishing software that Wordpress and Moveable Type never had the time to build, and it's why TMZ was able to grow so quickly, and why Engadget and Autoblog became the #1 blogs in their vertical.

AOL was not a fool to buy Weblogs, Inc., in fact AOL's entire strategy right now is to be Weblogs, Inc. If you listen to Tim Armstrong's talk at Web 2.0 this week he discusses growing from 500 to 3,000 freelancers and launching hundreds of vertical content sites (aka Blogs). When we sold weblogs, Inc. it had 500 contributors around the world... and that after only 18 months in business (yes, we sold the company for a reported $30m after 18 months).

I concur Zeldman is more advanced at CSS than I am, but Zeldman wouldn't last more than five hands with me in headsup poker, raising money, building a business, building a team, doing M&A, building a brand or building a product that passes 3, 5, or 10M unique visitors a month.

However, I might hire him to do some CSS or a logo. Then again I might put that work on 99designs too. (zing! pow!)

Wait a second, why am I even responding to someone with elephant rape fantasies?!?!

Wow, I had no idea this reflective and self-critical post was actually all about you. Thanks for enlightening me.

You've got it the wrong way around. He is talking about his own brokenness, not anybody else's.

Ah yes, the "I've got the inside scoop blah blah blah you'll just have to trust me" argument. Brandished like a true former journalist.