This user is affiliated with the Plazi organisation: In fact I am the president.
This is one of few hats I wear. My CV is one option to get an idea of my interests, one of which is the belief that access to knowledge coupled with the Internet and Open Access is tantamount to sliver of hope in the current development of our world. This is expressed here.
I am convinced that we are a multitude of people on the planet and each with a slightly different interests. Though reading taxonomic description of the marvelously diverse species might not be of everyone's' taste, there are nevertheless a plenty of them worth feeding the news about new species. The use of antbase, in which I am deeply involved, is just a fantastic indicator of how many people all around the world are interested to read such descriptions. If they all have the chance to feed back, to improve those descriptions, then we could all together contribute to a better protection of our rapidly changing world.
My own contribution to the knowledge of species covers the description of well over 90 ant species and genera, some of it covering the oldest ant fossils in the world.