From the Soda Journal, written on 5 July 06 by alex.
There aren’t many soda members taking an interest in the world of soccer (well, there are some) but with the World Cup in Germany unfolding it can hardly be ignored. And I just found a nice web 2.0 aspect to the whole thing:
Yahoo/FIFA have a section on the official World Cup site called the 12th man. Among other things they invite their visitors to share their countless pictures using certain tags on flickr. Some of these pictures are then added to a gallery. Unfortunately they apply a very not-flickr-like moderation to the whole thing so that the gallery has only a few hundred images whereas flickr already sports several thousend correctly tagged pictures.
But still, it is good to see what used to be a niche practice entering the main stream (it is FIFA after all). And we have very recently done something similar sans moderation on b.tween2cultures.net, too.