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...stuff and a lot of crap [on the Internet],” Sagan said. “But I see it in my neighborhood newspaper, too.” Blogs, on the whole, act as checks on mainstream news sources and provide unlimited space for information, said panelist Rebecca MacKinnon, the co-founder of Global Voices Online, a non-profit media project sponsored by the Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “In the past, if a journalist didn’t pick up on something...it didn’t go anywhere...
...MCAS in Cambridge’s schools. “When you use a test with an absolute cut-off score, as is the case with the MCAS, those errors that are built into the process can result in erroneous, damaging decisions,” he said. Nate MacKinnon, a staffer in the Massachusetts Department of Education Commissioner’s Office, said that scoring errors on the MCAS are not a concern because of the department’s long grading timeline. The tests are administered in the spring every year and the scores are returned between the middle...
...great expert and you are incapable of that sort of negotiation, you’re not going to make it in Wikipedia,” he said. During the discussion, to illustrate the nature of Wikipedia, Klein created an entry titled “Rebecca MacKinnon is a kitten-eating cyborg,” which was deleted by an administrator in less than two minutes. He also edited the Wikipedia entry for MacKinnon, who is a fellow at the Berkman Center, to include, “She is regularly referred to as a ‘kitten-eating cyborg...
...Emma S. Mackinnon ’05 served on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Relations from the fall of 2002 to the spring...
...more pathetic than apathetic: to use a favorite phrase, we sweat the people in power. “Identifying with the system seems somewhat peculiar to Harvard,” said Mackinnon. “Most students identify with the underdog...