It is actually fairly trivial to find the identities of the people seeing as how most personal blurbs are reused from other sources.

Pg. 57 for example is most likely referring to Russell Miyaki, just do a Google search for "is involved with ensuring that the highest of standards and best practices of interactive development are applied".

Very interesting comments. I read a book a while back on "free market economies", and I was very intrigued by the ideas. I totaly agree with you that this way of "editing" is a lot more efficient that you old find me some "qualified" editor method. The only thing I disagree with is that the transaction has to be monetary. Why? Probably mainly due to the disparity in wealth distribution in the world. Can you imagine a world where only "us" americans with money were the only ones able to "edit" the material? Seems to me that that would restrict the power of the free market you talk about. It would be very interesting to create an environment where the "market" actually set the value of things. Slasdot, Wikipedia and others have, to some extend, tried that. Has it work? Well, it is better than nothing, but it isn't perfect either. One thing that it has accomplish is keeping it $free$. I'm expecting, and hoping smart people like yourself, will help us get there.

Can you imagine a system where the free market actually decided how valuable your input is? Without charging you money (because most people don't have that), but something that is just as valuable to you (maybe time?).

If you have filled out a FAFSA or applied for a loan the Department of Education already has all the information. Part of my job is making sure the mandatory reporting gets sent to DOE. That is on top of other federal reporting, IPEDS, FISAP, etc. Granted most of the reports are general statistics, as the article mentioned, however there is a more information that is required to be reported than most people realize.