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Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

Matt Asay — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:02:42 -0000

Pu-lease. If you'd care to spend a few minutes reading through archives of the Salt Lake Tribune (yes, that organ of the Mormon elite ;-), you'd know that the mall is about improving downtown for everyone (including the Church, and perhaps especially to improve the area around Temple Square). A corporation? Nah. Savvy about both temporal and spiritual matters. You bet.

As for whether it could ruin Facebook, how could the LDS Church possibly ruin Facebook more than it already is? It's a wasteland of noise and silly applications, and only recently has attempted to grow up. Heck, I'd love to have *any* grown-up organization take over Facebook to make something useful of it. Take your pick: the Vatican, the mafia, Microsoft, ACLU, or you name it. I don't really care. Just someone that thinks there's more to social networking than status messages like "Away for the day, wondering if life could get any better."

Re: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney

Matt Asay — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:47:59 -0000

I'm not sure Diary is intended for you as the audience. My eight-year old son, however, loves this book.

Re: remembering

Matt Asay — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:07 -0000

One of my all-time favorite songs. I was actually singing it the other day as I walked through a drizzly day in Salt Lake City. Music like this elevates and ennobles us. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Why I Voted Against Proposition 8

Matt Asay — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:31:25 -0000

John, I'm a little disappointed by the post, but understand why you felt compelled to write it. Let me just say that reasonable minds can disagree on this. I find Proposition 8 neither hateful nor discriminatory, and your choice of words far too facile and loaded. I can think of a wide range of state-imposed prohibitions on behavior that impede some people's desired courses of actions, and in so doing it's being neither discriminatory nor hateful. It's simply doing what it views is good for its citizens.

It may be that the people will vote on this and decide that millennia-old strictures are wrong. If so, more power to the people. But just because some think those strictures are appropriate does not make them (or the state behind them) "hateful and discriminatory." I can think of very good other words to describe the feelings and motives supporting Proposition 8, even for those, like I, who have very dear and very close friends who are homosexual.

Re: The curious (mis)perception of open-source support

Matt Asay — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:03:07 -0000

You made my day, Nicole. Thanks for reading.

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

Matt Asay — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:00:04 -0000

Refreshingly honest (and open)! There are very good reasons to go open core with open source, and, ironically, community is probably the biggest reason (see http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10067267-16.html). The key is to get the balance right and to ensure one always has the chance to be forked: so long as that fundamental right is retained, and community is fostered such that it's a reality (and, hence, a check on the company doing Very Bad Things), open core is the best way to foster both community and company in tandem.

Re: Under Survaillance: The Big Brother State

Matt Asay — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:42:21 -0000

Feel free to delete this, but I didn't know how else to ping you. Just wanted to thank you for helping to Digg my posts. I really appreciate it.