4March
Well, William Barrington-Coupe's interview in to-day's Sunset Times just about wraps it up for the Hatto-trick. Except it doesn't; Mr. Barrington-Coupe leaves us thinking that all he did was a little touching-up, not the complete plagarism that people found a couple of weeks ago. Denis Dutton puts forward a convincing case that Mrs. Hatto knew that the works issued under her name were not hers, and that she was (at the very least) complicit in the fraud.
Over on World of Wikipedia, there's been a massive brew-ha-ha over someone who claimed to be a professor, but was actually a kid from the middle of nowhere. Jason Scott compares Hatto with Ryan Jordan (this Essjay person). Seth Finklestein discusses World of Wikipedia's values further, and one of his commentators compares WoW to $cientology, that well-known pyramid scheme. Shelley Powers hits the nail on the head, as usual, and points out that WoW's growth has come at the expense of serendipity.
