Happy 10th anniversary Daring Fireball

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I took a minute today to call John Gruber and congratulate him on his 10th anniversary of running Daring Fireball. John has had a tremendous influence on me as a writer and on my current business model.

When I first re-launched The Loop last September, I was worried that it would be too much like Daring Fireball. Obviously, the first call I made was to John to get his opinion. Not only was he open to the new design, he encouraged me to launch it. He also gave me advice on the money side of how The Loop could work.

Thanks John, for everything, including Daring Fireball.



  • http://totalipad.com/ Christopher

    Wow.. 10 years, never realized it has been around that long. Here is wishing it is around for 10 more!

  • http://darcyfitzpatrick.tumblr.com/ Darcy Fitzpatrick

    Jim, maybe you should have used a website analogy rather than a musical analogy in your post today about Samsung copying Apple. That way you could have used your site as an example, because at least you asked first before copying DF and you don’t go around pretending you came up with all of this yourself.

  • http://thinkitcreative.com/ Patrick Gant

    Too much like DF? There is only one home of the beard.

  • Jason

    Kind of gone off Mr Gruber now with the whole 5by5 thing. The way he did it severely lacked class.