Ten questions you always wanted to ask Ben Barden, Dr Evil lookalike, Entrecard Mod, Programmer for the Injader Content Management System, and owner of Benbarden.com.

1. Is your Underground Lair still inhabited by the world’s deadliest assassins and what happened to Mr. Bigglesworth?

Ben: Not at the moment, the Lair is being refurbished and I am currently having to make do with an office chair and a desk. I think it’s time to find out why it’s taken six months to paint the walls. Maybe the decorators have gone missing.

2. Entrecard readers want to know if you wear those glasses for aesthetic reasons or do you actually need them?

Ben: I have suffered from a condition known as diabolical eyesight since the age of 7. Back in the days of frequent alcohol-related incidents I have noticed that what normal people view as beer goggles, I experience with my glasses removed.

3. Your website uses the Injader Content Management system. Isn’t this just WordPress with all the useful stuff removed?

Ben: It’s WordPress without the need to install a plugin just to change the “from” address on the contact form. I actually spend more time on Injader than on Entrecard. That might give you some idea of why it’s so awesome and everyone is using it. (OK, that might be a bit premature. It’ll get there.)

4. On one hand you bill your website as “Defining Web Jargon”, you then state you “provide blogging and website tips, but without the jargon”. If you don’t include the jargon, what exactly are you defining?

Ben: I just left that there to catch you out. Now it says that I don’t assume you already know the jargon.

5. I congratulate you on your successful bid to oust Lee Doyle as a mod, now who is your next target, Saphrym or Woobie, or are you aiming high and hope to replace phirate himself?

Ben: You’re very misguided. All these other people you speak of… they are illusions. We are one.

6. To what do you attribute the lack of commercial radio airplay of your song “Nine Intertwined”

Ben: It’s 18 and a half minutes long. Not exactly radio-friendly.

7. Your old card was rather gray and ominous, sort of a “Two Big Bens in Drab Old England” theme. Does your new Entrecard’s happy fruity look reflect a personal change in your life?

Ben: No, the happy fruity look just shows I am eating a lot of bananas.

8. Your blog has almost no ads, and yet the most common question a new blogger has is how to monetize their site. Looking very carefully I found an out of place ad for chitika. You don’t even have an ad for Injader. Why is this?

Ben: Too many blogs already focus on how to make money online, so I’m not planning to make it a major focus. I did have an ad for Injader but it got so few clicks I thought I’d do better to promote Injader in other ways.

9. What do you see the biggest challenge facing Entrecard and the biggest feature that needs to be added or changed.

Ben: Honestly, the main issue at the moment is only having one developer. And we really need to sort out the shop. All in good time.

10. As a mod, who’s post are you most afraid to touch; the person that makes you walk away and “leave it for Saphrym to deal with”.

Ben: Nobody. But we usually get a different group of people in the Community forum vs. the Support forum, and I’m in the Support forum more than anything else. That, and the feedback form.

I’d like to thank Ben for patiently answering all my questions with a sense of humor.  (which is why I didn’t ask “Do you have a sense of humor?”)  Hopefully everyone checks out benbarden.com to see what Ben’s latest plans are for world domination.  While you are there, be sure to sample the music he has composed and everything else he has to offer.  If anyone has any additional questions for Ben, ask them here or on his blog.