Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Done and to do

Haven't posted for quite sometime, I've been playing catch up, a struggle to read through all the research I come across, and my double project for my major is research based its alot to get through. Well Ill leave it there for the excuses, but I hope to post a mass of posts in the next couple of days, I have a backlog of resources to post about.

Ive finished my essay on privacy, hooray, though I'm not a 100% happy with it, its longer than it should be and in the end there wasn't as much room for the ideas/ theorys avaliable on the topic. Its good, worth a read Ill say, when I post it up.

The title is: In the age of Blogger, Myspace and Youtube with posting personal data online as commonplace, is privacy online still possible? and further more is it even valued?

I talk about peoples perception of privacy, the real threats to privacy in social networks, who owns your data when its placed online, what cover there is or the lack of, the education which is needed, who responsibility your privacy is up to, thats just for starters, its pretty lengthy but it spans a lot of topics.

The title/ topic of the essay is not the published one for privacy, but after reading all my resources collected (papers/ articles and such) on privacy, I had so many ideas, and everytime I went to work on the published essay It just fell flat, I didnt want an empty unpassionate essay and I didn't want to write a report on privacy either. Im glad I was allowed to write on a different area within privacy.

One other thing was the referencing, I'm not the best at getting them right. I worry because I hate to think I quoted wrongly. Actually Ill make the note to find out where I'm going wrong with my referencing.

I really need to cover encryption, I cant get my head around articles I read in regards to encryption, I really need to cover it some how, its the main let down. Maybe if I done an excercise on it or if I showed some techniques in encryption to help with privacy. Haha, though I would have to be guided through it first. I need a few posts on encryption and I dont want to put any old crap up.

I missed last weeks sesson, no notes avaliable so can't catch up as such on what I missed. I'm sure it was quite interesting, the sesson was on porn and piracy which I'm sure Im aquainted on, one of my early essays was on napster, it was crap though but I did do the research and well every students knows about piracy anyhow. And porn well I have three older brothers so I grew up knowing it was there and well I was always snooping on my brothers computer and girls know just as much about porn and downloading it as guys do. As if its a guy thing, So in essense I'm not put far behind because I missed the sesson.

What else, oh yeh my idea for the second assignment, actually I won't mention it yet, I wrote a post about it on paper, Ill have a look for it. But I do hope to make up for any low marks by working harder (over christmas) on the second assignment, a problem might be the presentation, I mentioned that I would be fine with it, but I totally forgot that A I'm crap giving presentations, no one knows me so cant chit chat B my condition comes to play and I cant remember information I want to say even when knowing it back to front, there would be information I would forget. Also If I go after someone else, Upon listening to theres my head I will forget mine. I only remembered this as I experienced it in my double project module for my minor. So a worry!

Well thats just a catch up post in my progression

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