Project Log

Revised the conclusion according to the suggestions from peer evaluation.

Revised the introduction.

Wrote note cards and practiced my presentation for our group meeting scheduled for today (Saturday) at 3 p.m.

Entry Four

During this week I turned in my portion of the rough draft, and after the peer review, performed substantial revisions on the white paper. I will be working together with Aaron to develop the powerpoint presentation and the associated handout.

I wrote my parts of the paper and participated in the formatting and design of our rough draft.  We're really just ironing out little issues right now - I've got to alter the citation methods.  But after that, I think we'll have a really good paper.

Well, our rough draft is done, now just editing and making it look pretty.  I got to have some fun creating our visual:  I vandalized a Wikipedia page.  Of course, I changed it back right away, but it was still fun to go to the Wikipedia page for the color blue and see the message "the color to the right is actually red, not blue.  We apologize for the inconvenience."

The actual page can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue.

This week I finished up writing my section of the white paper.  Our group has put together are paper and is in the process of finalizing everything.  Now, I'm preparing for my part of the presentation and powerpoint for next week. 

Today I met with the professor and discussed issues regarding our white paper and its contents.  After the meetings I edited the paper for grammar and content as well as summarized the case studies used in the human rights violations section and fixed the citations within.  I informed my group members of the larger issues needing to be addressed in our papers.

We met in the Beering computer lab on Thursday, March 26 at 5 PM.  All members (Hu, John, Brett, and Liz) were present.  In our meeting we addressed citation issues, as well as needing to include more case study examples of human rights violations as well as add some background on the Beijing Olympics and the recent blockage of the entirety of YouTube (delegated to Hu).  We also decided to combine the gradual and immediate removal of censorship into one section and add a section based on petitioning the UN or governments to deal with the Chinese government since they most lik

3/24

Ally, Eric, and Adam e-mailed me their parts of the report and I put them together for the rough draft.

I completed the sources page and the table of contents.

I wrote the conclusion for the report.

I finished up my research for benefits of abonding net neutrality, and wrote my part of the whitepaper relating to it.

I attended 2 meetings relating to this project, and aided in designing the look and feel of our whitepaper.

Samitta and I merged the multiple documents together into the whitepaper.

I wrote the background information of the whitepaper.

I will attend a meeting on sunday to finalize the paper and create the presentation

This week I spent a lot of time researchin Dr. Lessig, and Mr. McSlarrow, two people appointed to present opposing viewpoints on Net Neutrality to a government tribunal. The two men are both strong supporters of their position and rightfully so are respected in their fields. Among other individuals, the bulk of information on Net Neutrality is theorized in the minds of a select few. The topic has yet to permeate main stream media and remains a specialty topicamong closely related parties.