This is my final paper for CS 4001, Computing and Society, taught by Michael McCracken. The prompt was to select a topic and write an 8-10 page paper on it; specifically, to form a cohesive argument, taking into account positions from all sides of an issue.
A surprisingly large number of people in my senior-level computer [...]

Every time one semester begins to end and it comes time to register for the next, I have a particular system that I use to determine my schedule for the next one. I’ll list what classes I’m looking at and solicit feedback, both on the system and the classes/professors in question.

While not as bad as being phished, certain programs and websites are deliberately misleading. I would like to show you two examples that have caught me: Norton and myYearbook.

I’ve been using Flickr for what seems like the better part of a year now. As a result of entering my Campus Information Mashup into the Yahoo! Hack U! contest/event, I received a year of Flickr Pro, free of charge.
I’m no stranger to image sharing websites, having used deviantART and Facebook extensively and Photobucket occasionally. [...]

Fun LiveJournal trick: go to the Manage Friends page and highlight all of your mutual followers (people that you follow that are also following you) in a certain color. That way, you can gloss over entries of people that don’t care about you enough to follow you, and pay more attention to those that do.
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