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Probing the Hive Mind – An Interview With Dan Benjamin:

A couple of months back, I was giving Dan Benjamin a hard time on Twitter, claiming that someone replaced his avatar with a caricature of Cabel Sasser (of Panic fame). Dan replied, with a link to the source his avatar, which was supplied by the gang responsible for Happy Webbies.

Although I was merely giving Dan a hard time — you have to admit that his happy webby looks a lot like Cabel’s Twitter avatar — this made me stop and think for a second. “Dan Benjamin has a happy webby!?” Seeing as I follow Dan on Twitter, I have obviously heard of him before. But I realized I did not hold him in the same regard as other notables in the web design world, such as Jason Santa Maria, Veerle Pieters or Jon Hicks. Why?

Incredibly interesting interview. Dan Benjamin designed and writes for HiveLogic, and is a Rails developer. He built the backend system for A List Apart and Cork’d.