Auburn Diploma

Auburn Diploma
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Finally got my degree in a proper frame a little over a year since graduation.

Deep South Cuisine

Deep South Cuisine
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T-Shirt for sale at the seafood & chicken restaurant, Cock of the Walk, near Auburn where we had a post-grad dinner on Friday.

Auburn Graduation Souvenirs

Auburn Graduation Souvenirs
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Some a bit more meaningful than others, but each with its own utility.

Graduation

Graduation
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Commencement Ceremony wrapping up my time as a graduate student at Auburn University.

My Auburn MBA Team

My Auburn MBA Team
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As pictured after being announced the winners of our semester project competition.

Post Grad School Celebration

Post Grad School Celebration
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Celebrated with all the other MBAs at Momma Goldberg's starting at 10AM with a few pitchers of Yuenglings.

Excellent Article On Social Media Ethics

I just shared this link with my ethics professor via e-mail, but thought it was notable enough to post here, too, as I believe it raises some very poignant ethical questions.

I'm a pretty strong advocate of social media & a fairly heavy user of it, but this article will likely make me take pause the next time I think about whipping out my iPhone to snap a picture when I witness something newsworthy. It's important to self-filter some things, even in times of crises like the Fort Hood shootings or the Iranian election protests. Deciding "what" to self-filter in an age of social media permeation represents one of the most interesting ethical questions of our time.

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/nsfw-after-fort-hood-another-example-of-how-citizen-journalists-cant-handle-the-truth/

Ethical Implications Of Modifying Modern Mobile Computing Platforms

With this week's rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone, I thought it might be a good time to post this paper I wrote for my Information Technology Ethics class last month in the Auburn MBA program. My paper covers some background on jailbreaking and unlocking mobile devices (iPhone, Android, & WebOS primarily), the legal environment surrounding such activities, and whether doing so is in fact ethical.

Since I've got some footnote and bullet action going on in the paper, I'm just going to post the PDF instead of copying/pasting the entirety of it into this blog post.

Ethical Implications Of Modifying Modern Mobile Computing Platforms
A Paper By Juston Western