In an unrelated anecdote I thought I'd share about daringfireball.net is that I used to do domain research for SEO purposes and sifting through each expired domain from the major registrars I was absolutely shocked as to how many links come from that domain.

He has linked to so many failed website and startup ideas over the time that I literally saw a link from his blog at least once a week.

His website may be one of the most prodigious spreaders of decent link-juice on the internet.