News Briefly: March 10, 2008

Regret the Error catches a LAT’s gaff:

Dolly Parton: A review in Friday’s Calendar section of Dolly Parton‘s new album, “Backwoods Barbie,” identified her as “one of the greatest country writers and singers of the last half-decade.” It should have read “one of the greatest country writers and singers of the last half-century.”

Tough town.

LAT’s reports that Wikipedia needs cash:

“Imagine if the other top 10 websites in the world, like Yahoo or Google, tried to run their budgets by asking for donations from 14-year olds,” said Chad Horohoe, a 19-year-old college student in Richmond, Va., who was until recently a Wikipedia site administrator, one of the 1,500 or so people authorized to delete pages or block users from making changes to articles. “It isn’t sustainable.”

We’d still rather have it funded by 14-year-olds than written by them.

Breaking News: New York’s governor is caught in a prostitution ring but because he’s a Democrat all the hookers are adult women. LAT’s blog is keeping up with the details as they unfold. The internet just exploded with the buzz. Screenshots are here.

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