Glazer the cocksucker?
Malcolm Glazer’s take-over of Manchester United certainly hit the headlines today. It remains to be seen whether he’ll bring the success that Abramovich has brought to Chelsea, but it’s quite amusing to see the United fans so riled.
It was also very amusing that one fan saw it fit to update Glazer’s Wikipedia entry with the information that Glazer is "the world’s biggest cocksucker" (their words, not mine). Wikipedia is great in that such an entry doesn’t last long before it’s edited out by another user, but it’s also great that you can view the version history.
American Idol is now getting down to the last few, with Anthony Fedorov being booted out last night. It’s a bit of a shame, as I’d have liked Vonzell to be voted off given her dreadful performances on Tuesday, but such is life. It seems academic that Bo and Carrie will be the final two come next week.
The BBC has taken an interesting approach of late. First of all, the editor caused uproar (among a few photographers) at the suggestion that Joe Public emails in photographs for them to use instead of the stock pictures that crop up on a regular basis. The professional photographer was somewhat indignant at the view that Mr. Amateur could do a better job than them.
Now, it has developed some APIs to enable developers to do cool stuff with its content. It seems that it’s outsourcing more and more of its offering, maybe in response to its announcement of significant job cuts. I think it’s a great idea, but I would hope that the licence fee will go down as it becomes an Open Source project!
Some of the examples from Flickr’s similar offering are quite clever, if somewhat useless. Hopefully, the BBC will inspire some more useful offerings.
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