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I have a good portion of quality research done (or at least i think its good quality) just in time for spring break. Having next week off will give me plenty of time to type up my section of the paper and send it to Ashley so she can get the executive summary done. Its seems like everyone else in the group has a good grasp on what they need to do, so im not very concerned. cant wait for break!

March 9, 2009

With spring break next week, Ashley, Andrew, Sijia, and Deborah met at the end of class. We modified a few deadlines we had set a couple weeks ago to accomodate for individual portions of the paper, such as the executive summary, to be written by the time we got back from spring break. Our next meeting will either be in class, or the monday we get back from spring break to put all of the paper together.

So far ive made some progress on research in finding a few good articles on digital watermarking. I haven't started my section of the paper yet, but im not too concerned. Ive been really busy this week anyways, hence posting this a week late.

March 4, 2009

Today was a short group meeting at the end of class. We discussed our individual progress so far, and clarified a few questions we had. Andrew, Ashley, Deborah, and Sijia were all here today.

I've been conducting further research into the response of cultures to gradual and sudden reintroduction of freedom of the press. Recently I've been looking into the liberalization of India in the 1990s. Starting from the wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_press_in_India) I found an article that mentions some government responses to the Indian press (http://www.pucl.org/from-archives/Media/freedom-press.htm).

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.

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.

I have put together all of the information I could find about personal privacy with Facebook.  I have also started my part of the rough draft to show the group at our next meeting.  Tonight and tomorrow I will hand out all of my surveys.

When/Where: Sunday March 8 at Hicks underground library

Who: R. Arkhavain, S. Ballard, J. Gilsinger, R. Rawlings

Goal: Make up survey questions and review others research and rough drafts to date.

Decisions: Two of us are going to focus more on social privacy while the other two will focus on the corporate privacy.  We also decided each person would hand out 25 surveys to others.

Tasks: Printed out surveys for everyone to hand out and updated our outline to our topics.