This feels like the "how to get a hit in the App Store" articles. Take someone elses idea and redo it and make lots of money. Rehashing someone elses project to turn it into your own and make money.
Whatever happened to people having their own thoughts these days? Then again, with stupid articles on here about how ideas are worthless I guess this just comes down to the same ol thing. Beg, borrow and steal your way to success. Not that this is a bad thing for everything, but when we're talking about the written word and original thought is better than trying to be someone you're not.
I could’ve gone explaining myself for hours, but I like short and to the point writing. It was just an idea to build a Mac centric site, covering more technical things, as Gruber obviously swayed in another direction.
As you may know, thinking of a name and registering a domain is not easy today, so I went with the simplest path, a play on well know brand.
Daring Fireball is almost a brand name in the Mac power user world. Love him or hate him, most users that are more than mouse clickers on a webpage typically know about the site by now.
"Anything Fireball" is a rip off of the name, or brand. Whether you implied it or not, you're kinda sorta stealing his hard work to try to make yours more popular. Of course, you won't admit it because that would make you look bad. But it's pretty doubtful you'll fool anyone here even if you deny it.
You'd do yourself a real favor by coming up with a name based on your own creation, not someone else's. I doubt John will care, but you'll alienate your user base a bit by being so "copy-cat-ish."
That said, I feel like John Gruber used to be more of a curator that showed cool projects and things, and less of a market share analyst. I kinda miss that.
Anyway, you can't just replace John Gruber. As a writer, he's kind of one of a kind.
Because Safari's about third on my list of browsers I'd use, below Chrome and Firefox and tied with Opera above IE.
Sorry, this first post didn't do anything for me. Also, exhorting us to on the one hand, avoid proprietary formats, and on the other, to use what Apple has given us and little else is either very clever satire or the height of fanboism.
As for the second part, I am all for Crux, Slackware, JFS, OpenBSD, cwm, evilwm, ratpoison, urxvt etc. I am also tired. And MacBook Air gives me little friction.
My idea was 'Back to Mac' version of Daring Fireball.
