Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.

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Last week was swallowed largely by loose ends and everyday concerns.

One of the largest items I worked on was creating a draft for the Presidential Inauguration page. I have submitted the page to the small marketing group, with a Google link to many other examples of such sites, for critique and suggestions, but so far the responses have basically been that I need to add event details that no one has worked out yet. I said that the page could grow, improve or change as needed as information came in.

In response to the problem of the antiquated WebEvent master calendar and the growing pressure on John Bowers, our Director of Internal Communication, to keep track of distributing information for events all over campus, I worked with Joel, the network administrator, and JB on buying and installing the PHP-based web calendar called Helios. I have not done any work towards setting it up further, but JB and I hope to deploy the system before term 4.

I put up a new Story Behind about service work in Peru. I did some regular website maintenance. I updated the Financial Aid webpage. I changed two of the pictures on the new homepage design to address concerns raised in the site critique done by The Change. I also put up a hacked-up version of the AP credit table into the Admission section of the online catalog. I eventually need to address the problem of tabular data in the catalog’s XML. Finally, I helped the following departments with the CMS: podcast crew, psychology, wellness, and service learning. Off the website, I submitted a purchase order for new computers for my crew.

In browsing and blogging, I explored the possibility of going to the SXSW Interactive conference and found out that I blew my budget at the last Stamats con. I blogged on the death of Cyberspace, the importance of carefully crafted questions in demographic studies, and generally bemoaned the latest broadcasts from the Web 2.0 color guard.

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From ‘A Softer World’

There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.

Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…

I HAVE A MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!1!