The revamped LDS Newsroom has an interesting article about reactions to the recent documentary, ‘The Mormons.’ It’s interesting not because of what the reactions are, per se, but because this is the first time to my recollection that the official LDS press dept. has made specific references to blogs:
Blogs that focus on Mormon themes have had an increase in activity as well. On the Article IV blog, one reader wrote….
The Washington Post/Newsweek’s religion blog, On Faith, has made the following their question of the week….
Article IV and On Faith are the first specific blogs I’ve seen mentioned by the Church — correct me if I’m mistaken, folks. When will the Church recognize the Bloggernacle?
May 2, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Is is true Steve, BCC has been submitted to the correlation department for consideration as an official online Church publication?
May 2, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Maybe when the Bloggernacle is worth mentioning? Ouch.
May 2, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Every day that goes by is another day tacked on to how wrong Christian Cardall and Geoff J were back in 2005.
May 2, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Susan — SNAP! We got served.
May 2, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Guy, you’ve got it backwards — the Correlation dept. is being subsumed into BCC. All your base are belong to us.
May 2, 2007 at 7:44 pm
“When will the Church recognize the Bloggernacle?”
According to my source, February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen.
May 2, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Article IV? Err, that should be Article VI. Actually, they were quoting from Hedgehog Blog.
May 2, 2007 at 8:52 pm
We totally pwned Correlation.
May 2, 2007 at 8:59 pm
The newsroom also linked to an Article VI post last October.
May 2, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I’ve never even heard of those particular blogs.
May 2, 2007 at 10:28 pm
I’ve never even heard of those particular blogs
They’re part of the Re-organized Bloggernacle. They broke off back in ’01.
May 2, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Justin, thanks for the heads-up — that’s interesting to hear. Perhaps they’re looking in the wrong place? Does the LDS Newsroom only have the front half of a bejeweled locator medallion?
May 2, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Article VI is the Shelbyville to our Springfield as far as I am concerned.
May 2, 2007 at 11:32 pm
the lds newsroom will start mentioning the bloggernacle as soon as the church wants to acknowledge its existence to those who are as yet unaware. so never.
the bloggernacle is the new symposia. it’d be officially spoken against if there weren’t already too many involved in it.
May 3, 2007 at 2:20 am
Was anyone else amazed by the tone of this and the mentioned Church response? Who knew a correlated source would say “thought-provoking” and “broad and diverse” were good things?
I wonder if they are encouraging members to get involved in as Mormon voices in the blogosphere.
May 3, 2007 at 5:37 am
The Newsroom made specific mention of the Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog last year when they announced that Church would be participating in that blog through its representative Michael Otterson. In a way, the Church is part of the blogosphere as a result.
May 3, 2007 at 7:32 am
Perhaps they’re looking in the wrong place? Does the LDS Newsroom only have the front half of a bejeweled locator medallion?
They’re aware and have files on all the blogs. Straight up, the Bloggernacle got dissed. The Newsroom is now dead to me.
May 3, 2007 at 9:21 am
Justin: word.
May 3, 2007 at 11:53 am
Forget the Bloggernacle — Am I the only who would like to see Elder Jensen start his own blog?
May 3, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Queuno, Marlin is too busy looking for his son Nemo to start a blog at this point.
May 3, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I, for one, welcome our new correlated overlords.
May 3, 2007 at 3:49 pm
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should start a group blog at lds.org/12apostles