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"John Gruber of Daring Fireball is the most influential Apple pundit on the web, but readers often complain about the lack of comments on his website. In fact, Gruber's site is famous for not having comments. In an age when every website falls over itself to accommodate reader interactivity, Gruber stands alone. He has stubbornly resisted adding comments to his site for years."

Daring Fireball With Comments is live and you can toss a comment or two onto what Gruber has posted on his site. His reason for not allowing comments? In his words, it "takes away from what I'm saying." Yea so you can see why the word egotistical and arrogant are sometimes attached to his name. This should be an interesting experiment if nothing else. It appears that his isn't the only website that isn't allowing comments though.

"I almost always edit the title, but the big score is having the URL field populated automatically by the bookmarklet. Prior to the arrival of copy-and-paste in OS 3.0, the only other way I could have gotten the URL from one page in MobileSafari to the link URL field in Movable Type in a second page in MobileSafari would have been to type it out by hand — painstaking and error-prone."

Photo Credit: (CC) Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com

It's interesting how many possibilities OS 3.0 has opened up for people. For me personally, I've come to the conclusion that if someone could hack in support for Apple's BlueTooth Keyboard, I wouldn't need to carry my laptop on most business trips. Granted, Gruber's talking mostly about blogging, but it's not hard to extrapolate that out to any other line of work that involves writing.

"With WWDC09 now just weeks away, rumors and predictions regarding what Apple may reveal at the highly-anticipated, sold-out developers conference in San Francisco are sure to spread like a California wildfire. Anyone interested in being on the right side of such talk would do well to consider the logic and analysis out Thursday from John Gruber, the well-placed author of the blog Daring Fireball, who isn't prone to talking about things he doesn't know a little something about."

Gruber thinks the for sure things are a CPU nearly double what it is now, better camera with video capability and increased memory maximum from 16 GB to 32 GB. After that, it isn't concrete as to what will happen. His sources have given him some possibilities though, and he writes about them on his Daring Fireball blog.