Project Log

Individual blog: Facebook group

Tue, 03/10/2009 - 19:03 — rakhavai

On friday i went and talked to one of the Dean of Students Pablo Malavenda. He told me great statistics such as accoriding to a research done by 10% of college admissions admited they used Facebook as part of their admission process. Also that UMass took a similar survey and found 21% of colleges used facebook for recruiting. He provided me with powerpoint slides that also displayed such items to go along with our information. I am going to continue researching and start writing what applies to my part of the paper.

Individual Blog 3: Image Downloads

Tue, 03/10/2009 - 14:23 — athomas

I looked at some sample white papers to get a better idea of how to present our information.  I experimented with several different colors, font styles and sizes, and alignments to see what looks best.  I also designed a title page.

Piracy Group Meeting 4

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 20:45 — drawson

3/9/09 - ENGL 421 Classroom

Attendees: Rawson, Riddle, Rupp, Schmidt

Goal: Finalize writing assignments for rough draft

Topics:

  - Research progress

  - Writing assignments

  - Updated timeline

Decisions:

  - Rawson, Rupp, and Schmidt have completed research.  Riddle may have to do additional research during writing phase.

  - Members will continue with writing assignments per the last memo

  - Rough draft parts should be done by 3/23/09

CENSORSHIP GROUP: Personal Blog for the week of 3/9

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 16:08 — wmortl

Began researching my topic of who benefits from Net Neutrality dying. I have found a great deal of information from articles linked off of Wikipedia. I feel like I will have mostly Internet sources with a couple of magazine articles. This is a current topic and there are not many books in print that cover this topic.

I will have an outline of my paper done and sent to group mates by this friday

 

Will

Individual Project Log 3 - Mark Laczin

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 16:05 — Mark

This meeting we discussed what will be done before, during and after Spring break, and finalized what is going to happen when.  We've also agreed on times to meet at the end of this week and the beginning of the week we get back.

 

My own research is going well, I'm going to start putting words on paper later this week (some exams are currently taking my free time).

CENSORSHIP GROUP: Meeting 6

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 16:04 — wmortl

Meeting at: 5:00pm 3/9/2009

Location: Classroom

Attended by: Will, Mark, Cole, Samhita

Goals: Talk about whats happening during spring break

Topics discussed: Discussed tasks and what to do next,that we will email each other outlines of our work before break, and that we will stay in touch during break via email

Decisions: All of our outlines should be emailed to the group by Friday at midnight

Delegations: We all were delegated tasks in the scope of work memo

Next Meeting: March 23 2009, time is TBD

White Paper Project - Indivisual Blog

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 15:10 — kul

Entry 2:

Researched on movie (video) piracy. Following sites have reliable information on the issues of video piracy.

http://www.mpaa.org/piracy.asp

http://www.mpaa.org/leksummaryMPA%20revised.pdf

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mexico-piracy_avilafeb22,0,3987799.story

FACEBOOK GROUP: Meeting 3

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 15:05 — jbombard

Meeting Time: In Class, Monday 3/9/09

Attendees: John, Catherine, and Kristin.

Meeting Goal: Divide up sections for writing the paper, share research among the group, decide on formatting.

Internet Censorship Group meeting4

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 15:05 — phenke

INTERNET CENSORSHIP GROUP MEETING #4:
When/Where: In normal classtime Mon. March 9th
Who: Mark, Paul, Dave
Goal: decide on focus for white paper and begin formatting discussion
Topics: arguments against net neutrality, informing new FCC chairman of how these attacks affect censorship
Decisions: to focus on both public and business views on limiting net neutrality
Tasks: continue research
Plans for next meeting: research, begin to outline
Other/etc:SPRING BREAK!!!

Individual Work Blog Week 3

Mon, 03/09/2009 - 14:26 — jbombard

I've recieved responses from both companies and friends who are seeking jobs about Facebook's use by companies.

Most companies I've contacted deny using Facebook for either hiring or employee screening. However, many job seekers I have spoken with at Purdue report many strange people, most older than college age, trying to friend them on Facebook after they visited job fairs or sent resumes in on CCO.

I believe some companies may not be entirely honest with me on this subject, and might not want to disclose the information they use to determine who to hire.