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digitalderbs writes:
CNN is reporting that the MIT dean of admissions has been fired for falsifying her resume 28 years ago. She misrepresented degrees from Albany Medical College, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College. Despite not having these credentials, she was well recognized for her service at the university :
Jones was named dean of admissions at MIT in 1997 and received MIT's highest award for administrators, the "MIT Excellence Award for Leading Change." She was also the 2006 winner of the "Gordon Y Billard Award" given "for special service of outstanding merit" performed for the school.
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digitalderbs writes:
CNN is covering the Time Magazine person of the year.. you. In the December 25th 2006 issue of Time, the article will discuss how the biggest story of 2006 is the revolution on the internet : blogging, YouTube, myspace, facebook, wikipedia and so on. From the article :
"It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes...The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter."
