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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I did not consider this week particularly productive. At work, the upcoming Presidential Inauguration and several tangential political issues related to the new president kept me fairly occupied. At home, my son contracted Roseola and his fever peaked at the same time that the sewer decided to back-up again. The result is that I was unable to focus attention on programming enough to really accomplish anything.

This week’s largest accomplishment was the drafting and completion of a website for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration. I created a draft Monday and submitted it to the small Marketing Group for suggestions. By Friday, I had received suggestions and the information that will be included in the (paper) invitation packets. I converted the material to the web and organized it in what I hope is a clear manner. The website is currently linked prominently from the homepage and will be linked redundantly from within news stories in the weeks leading up to the event.

This week I learned that David Abernathy and the ELC are working on some interesting material that uses GIS data, YouTube, and Google Earth to create an interactive Green Walkabout of the campus. Unfortunately, Abernathy hasn’t had much time to devote to the project and the video quality is really very poor. However, this may be an interesting solution to creating an interactive campus tour.

Some odds and ends included helping Bossman set up a template for the VP for Advancement search, working more with Podcast Crew, forgetting to check on numbers for the online giving page, Ken Banks, and the SSCA. Story Behind was Peru and will remain Peru until Feb 23 when the first of two WorldWide stories will be published.

This week in blogs and mailing lists: I found out that the first steps we’ve taken towards integrating web and print with XML for the College Catalog are innovative but not new within higher education. Several schools are still using separate work processes for creating their print and HTML versions, but a few have completed the complete integration. One excellent suggestion I saw was to create a new catalog every two years rather than every year. I only wrote one blog entry covering the ‘SCAD Shorts’ set of viral videos put together for the Savannah College of Art & Design.

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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!