Blog Assignment 7: Privacy Scavenger Hunt

Visit the web-sites in the class blogroll (the one on the right side of this blog.)

Find three articles pertaining to privacy.  Provide brief, 2-3 sentence summaries of the article that include the privacy problem that the article is presenting.  The provide a sentence or two including your own analysis of the problem.  

Complete before class starts on November 4.  

Blog Assignment 6: Privacy

Find FOUR online services to which you belong (these can include any message board/blog sites/e-mail), in addition to what you may traditionally think of as SMS).

Find out what your privacy settings are, and what the options for your privacy settings are.

Summarize these, by service, in ONE blog post.

Briefly discuss (5-7 sentences) the differences in the settings.  In your opinion, which has the "best" privacy settings?  The worst?  How secure do you feel using these services?

Blog Assignment 5: Project Gutenberg & Creative Commons

Visit gutenberg.org and search.creativecommons.org.  Read about the sites and their mission statements.

Post 3 images from Creative Commons related to communication technology (i.e., the Internet, telegraph, telephone, television, mobile, etc.)

Link to 3 different books.  For each book, give a brief description of the formats, i.e., HTML, Kindle, Nook, etc.  Write down the format and explain what kind of devices it can be read on.  At least one should be a book you've read (or been assigned to read, you slacker) in a course at some point during your grade school or college careers.

Due 10/09/2014.

Blog Assignment 4

Blog  update!  Go through the blogroll you created earlier in the semester of news/culture/technology blogs and give a summary of what you've been reading on those sites.  In a single blog post that is one to two paragraphs (4-7 sentences each), summarize two to four articles or themes found in the blogs.

If you still don't have a blogroll, that's going to set you back here, but you'll still need to finish this assignment by Tuesday, October 7. Thursday, October 9.

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