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Meet: In class, Monday

Attendance: Addy, Justin, Vanessa

Goals: decide on format and finalize meeting

Overall topics discussed: We decided to use APA format and we are meeting on Thursday to put our individual research/work together and compose a draft of the white paper

Decisions Made: APA format, Meet Thursday at 3:30 to write a draft of the white paper

Tasks delegated: continue research on your section

Next meeting plans: on Thursday March 11, compile a draft of white paper together

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.

For the week of 3/2-3/6 I worked on researcing my topic more.  I found quite a few websites with information regarding registering users on Wikipedia. This coming week I plan to create an outline of all my information.  Our group is meeting Thursday March 12 to compose our draft.

Big Victory in Atlantic v. Howell: Court Rejects RIAA "making Available" Theory:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/big-victory-atlantic-v-howell-court...

We met during class time on Monday March 9.  We talked about our resources and the progress on the completion of our research summaries as well as decided that we would use MLA formatting for citing the white paper resources.  We decided to meet on Thursday at 5PM in the computer lab where class is held to begin to put together the rough draft of our white paper.  The goal for the next meeting is roughly draft the white paper and begin to put together visuals and make arrangement decisions.

I have contined/began to finish up my part of the research for the white paper in the last week. Writing for the rough draft will begin on Thursday of this week with my group.

Research Post #1:

Wikipedia:List of Guidelines. (n.d.). Retrieved March 4, 2009, from         Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

Over the past week, the white paper project has continued to progress. Research has continued. Sources are being evaluated and organized. Per the deadlines set by our group, an outline of the section of the paper I am responsible for has been completed and submitted to the group, and a draft has been started and scheduled for completion by Wednesday the 12 of March.

I did a more detailed research and wrote a rough draft of my section.

So far things have been going smoothly.  I've gathered research on ways that eBay could hold their users more accountable.  Many people will keep creating accounts after they've been kicked off eBay for fraud.  This can be prevented by users having to enter either their social security number, drivers license number, etc to gain an eBay account.  I've learned that not all countries have identification numbers, but most do.  It seems like drivers license numbers are most common.  This upcoming week I will begin writing my portion of the paper.

This week I just continued my research on the problem of Wikipedia and continued drafting some of the paper. We are meeting on Thursday to sit down together and write a full draft of the paper.