[chipmunkninja]

Daring Fireball has taken a huge credibility hit in my eyes in the last couple of weeks. It's been approaching TechCrunch-style speculation and histrionics.

Yes, he deserves points for for admitting he was wrong - it takes a big person to do that. Personally, however, I would have preferred to see the articles not written in the first place until things were a bit more clear.

Perhaps this is inevitable when your blog suddenly becomes a significant source of revenue?

[calambrac]

Suddenly? DF has been around for years, and it's been Gruber's only source of income since 2006. The irony of bitching about histrionics...

[unalone]

Dude, he's a single guy writing a blog, and it's still a personal blog by most standards. That is, most of his posts are just him linking to things he thinks is cool, whether or not it's Mac-related. When he blogs about things sources have told him, it's still one guy saying "Hey, my friend told me this." He's very frequently right, but he's not an Apple employee and he has to rely on people.

Approaching TechCrunch-style speculation? Seriously? He wrote two small blurbs about this Apple/AT&T thing, and beyond that left it completely alone, except to admit when he was wrong. Meanwhile, the rest of his articles/links have been as good as they were since I started reading him two years ago.