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...could have received a doctorate from an American university when he was supposedly living in Iran. Saeedlou admitted that Hartford (no relation to the University of Hartford) is an online institution. State education authorities in Oregon who monitor so-called diploma mills have had their eye on for-profit Hartford University, which is registered in the tiny Pacific offshore banking haven of Vanuatu and offers courses leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees that can cost thousands of dollars. Saeedlou's diploma didn't do him much good. The members of Iran's Parliament voted to block his appointment. --By Adam...
...experience over the years has been that the nonprofit world occasionally takes on things from the for-profit world, and sometimes takes on very bad things,” he says. “I think there is a certain cult of personality in the cultural field that is not unlike some of the more visible CEOs of the corporate world. And I think that’s wrong. I think the best of the cultural leaders, the people who place their institutions before themselves, they’re not self-aggrandizing...
...they see as info anarchy. (An Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a public toilet seat because you don't know who used it last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an lite...
Whatever happens to Wikipedia, the wiki genie is out of the bottle. There are wikibooks for collaborative nonfiction, wikipes for recipes and wikimedia for citizen journalists. Wales has a for-profit website, Wikicities, where anyone can form a community. (The two largest are geeking out on the chronologies of Star Wars and Star Trek.) "It's a form of brainstorming that's bigger than one person standing at a flip chart," says Cunningham. "And there's a timelessness to it. You can do a wiki over one year or 10." And have almost as much fun as Jimmy Wales does...
...really paid for the Malaysia trip? A Heritage senior fellow who was on the trip tells TIME that it wasn't Heritage. He says that Belle Haven Consultants, a for-profit, Hong Kong--based firm linked to the Malaysian government, played a key role. "Heritage had nothing to do with it," says the senior fellow, former Wyoming Senator Malcolm Wallop. "Belle Haven did." It would be a violation of House ethics rules if a group other than the official sponsor paid for a trip for a member of Congress. DeLay's spokesman Dan Allen insists, "Heritage sponsored, organized and paid...