Yes, I think we should be very wary of getting involved with dr. reid cornwell. his empire is expanding of course. if you google him you will see that he has at least 3 different institutes/centers/ foundations all related to his corporate entity, he has several conferences, which he seems intent on leveraging academic expertise to promote. To me, it sounds very much like a profit from conferences system, leveraging academic expertise, which I find distasteful. I also find it distasteful that he has appropriated the emails from the list and is spamming members. It is spam in as much as it was unrequested and there is one profit making entity involved. If you received his personal invitations, i suggest you think twice, because it is likely that everyone on the list received very much the same invitation. I personally wouldn't want to have one of his conferences on my vita, i think it would have negative mojo to some people who have been bothered by him before. Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron