Every few months, an article comes out to make you worried your most precious internet commodity, Facebook, is under attack. Harvard programmers and entrepeniers have long been accusing Mark Zuckerberg of stealing programming ideas in Facebook’s developmental stages.
02138, the magazine for Harvard alums who are not over it yet, has devoted 5000 plus words on the issue.
We can’t really blame them for the inflated coverage: After all, it’s not as if a Yale dropout could have come up with Facebook.
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Talk of a Harvard’s “not in the traditional sense” alumni magazine 02138 surfaced back in December, during the same period that Atlantic staffers were leaving Boston for Washington D.C. With Atlantic President David Bradley backing the new little mag, 02138 staffers began taking over the Boston digs, even before the disgruntled Atlantics could be fully moved out.
As you can probably anticipate, tensions grew. Bom Kim, founder and president of 02138, alligned with Bradley to raise this new baby, and Bradley’s first child quickly got jealous. Well, they did have good reason — they were forced to fight for what was left of their turf.
Supplies and paper were being divvied, Kim used Atlantic’s fax number (which was intended to move to D.C. along with the staff) for 02138’s letterhead, and furniture was being stolen from offices.
Later that month, Mr. Kim moved a gray couch that had been outside the office of The Atlantic????????s then art director, Mary Parsons, into the office of his incoming managing editor.
???????It was her personal couch,??????? a staffer said. ???????It wasn????????t an Atlantic couch.???????
This huge magazine office no-no caused Atlantic office manager Robert Moeller to stick ???????You Touch, You Die” labels to Atlantic staffers’ stuff. Oh, dear. This is even more drama than we had in the entire last season of 90210. Can we a get a reality show crew in soon?
Harvard Prodigy Spends Bradley????????s $4 Million;Alumni Await Magazine [Gabriel Sherman, New York Observer]