I would argue that FogCreek's early success was the result of Joel's blog. Around that time he had said most of what he had to say and posting frequency decline

I would argue that FogCreek's early success was the result of Joel's blog. Around that time he had said most of what he had to say and posting frequency declined. I haven't looked at his site more than a couple times in the past 10 years. So I think it did matter tremendously and momentum declined after that factor was removed