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

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:27:46 -0000

Reader, I'm really sorry to hear that you feel this way. As you know, we sometimes publish hot rumors in order to explain why we don't believe them. That's what I did here. You know that nearly all of my articles are focused on the facts, first. Hopefully, some of those ones will keep you reading us. :)

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

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:25:25 -0000

Exactly.

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

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:25:02 -0000

Thanks, Andreas.

Re: Say goodbye to suburbia: California moves to cut urban sprawl

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:03:34 -0000

FC, I'm giving you one guess to figure out which California city Chris lives in (and yes, he also rides his bike around a lot).

That said, I love LA, but I think that's because I have friends down there who have cars. The fact that LA is so decentralized makes it harder for newcomers to get a good appreciation for the place. If there were an easier way for people to discover the thousands of little communities and scenes there, it'd be a different story.

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

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:38:16 -0000

Please read the article again, John.

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

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:01:38 -0000

Thanks, Jeff

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:49:34 -0000

Thanks, Mark.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:02:46 -0000

That's a fair point. I only wrote about this because it was intriguing (to me) even if it appeared unlikely.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:00:43 -0000

I meant Facebook. I contacted them since I know them better and figured I had a better chance of hearing back at all. I will grant you that the LDS response was impressively quick.

W/r/t "overzealous posting" -- this is the blogosphere and anyway, my angle was that this is probably not true.

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

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:42:10 -0000

I'd prefer it not be run because it's a rumor, and you've admitted
that. VentureBeat I respect for good, factual stories - I appreciate
that. Stories like this you're welcome to run - it just takes away
from the informal articles I'm used to.

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

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:41:09 -0000

Ummm, I meant the church.

Also, if they did get in contact with you and give you information that you couldn't put up in time, I can blame the editor for over zealous posting before all sides were contacted. I've had that happen before.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:38:25 -0000

Please see my previous comments and the update. Thanks.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:37:39 -0000

I did my research as much as I was able before publishing, Jesse. Why would you have preferred I not run this? I tried to contact Facebook's PR. LDS's PR got back to Brim-DeForest well after I'd published.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:36:32 -0000

Some Guy, like I said, above, I'd contacted Facebook's PR department -- I know them a lot better than LDS's, as you might expect.

I think I was clear in my original post about what facts I knew and didn't know. It's an interesting enough story, with enough suggestions of fact, that I thought our readers should know about it.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:34:32 -0000

Thanks for the perspective, Marc.

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

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:33:57 -0000

Luke, I contacted Facebook before I started writing the story, and I haven't heard back.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/19/facebook-plans-to-move-its-offices-south-in-palo-alto-to-california-ave/

eldon — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:47:34 -0000

Hey, I like doing this local stuff as a change of pace.

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/19/facebook-plans-to-move-its-offices-south-in-palo-alto-to-california-ave/

eldon — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:46:58 -0000

Right!

Re: Manufacturing could hit a new upswing in the United States

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:29:50 -0000

First up: The Silly Knit Hat Guild of America.

Yeah, fine. Bad example ;) See below.

Re: Manufacturing could hit a new upswing in the United States

eldon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:29:01 -0000

Jeremy, I emailed Chris the same (and I really loved this article, btw).

Etsy is a cottage industry of the manufacturing sort only if you count a hipster sewing in Williamsburg as an industrialist. Etsy is handicrafts -- which is what manufacturing's not, right? No offense to the hipster, they're just a craftspeople (pretty soon they'll have guilds, if they don't already).

Re: More musical chairs: Facebook’s Benjamin Ling returns to Google

eldon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:23:05 -0000

YouTube revenue share?

Re: ComScore: Social networks, especially Facebook, getting big around the world

Ronald — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:35:47 -0000

That is strange.

Re: Yahoo pushes its location platform Fire Eagle out of the nest so it can spread its wings

eldon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:32:58 -0000

Too insidery.

Re: ComScore: Social networks, especially Facebook, getting big around the world

eldon — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:29:36 -0000

Maybe Wal-Mart HQ made all its employees sign up?

Re: Internet measurement in China: How to get out of the Dark Ages

eldon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:45:22 -0000

For this article, it was easy. I simply forgot to mark it as a guest column.