Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Ever wonder how accurate all those tech predictions we hear at this time of year really are? Let’s look at a few from 2011 and see how they hold up five years later.
Category: Notes From The Electronic Cottage
A weekly feature on electronic technology as it affects everyday life with Jim Campbell. Broadcast on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME every Thursday at 7:30 AM.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/31/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
It’s the end of 2015 but don’t worry – no “best of” or “worst of” lists here! Instead, let’s think a bit about both the advantages (“Front of the Hand”) and disadvantages (“Back of the Hand”)of some tech that was very much with us in 2015.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/24/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
In this holiday season, hundreds of millions of electronic gadgets will be opened and click-through licenses clicked on. Listen to one cartoonists version of a click-through license are. Pretty funny, and not too far off the mark. And then there is the recently passed in the middle of the night Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act which is not funny at all.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/17/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
In the wake of the horrendous recent shootings in Paris and California, US politicians are once again calling for a ban on encryption that the government can’t decrypt. This is a call shared by politicians and governments in China and Vietnam and Azerbaijan as well as those in the UK and some European countries. It is not, however, shared by scientists and security experts who understand how encryption actually works, including most of those who have invented many of the security systems in use on the Internet today. Why not? The reason is simple: providing “golden keys” so that governments could open all communications would simply make the Internet – and the world – less secure and more dangerous.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/10/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Today, let’s continue our look at Internet connected items folks may be contemplating purchasing this holiday season, and some questions that might be worth asking before handing over that hard-earned cash.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/3/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Black Friday is over, Cyber Monday, too, but we’re still shopping. Here are a few things that might be worth keeping in mind as we fill those physical or virtual shopping carts.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/26/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
One of the things we can be thankful for this Thanksgiving is the wealth of resources that the web makes available to us, often at no monetary cost. Here are a few sites worth a look in the order in which they were mentioned in today’s program. Enjoy!
www.etymonline.com
www.yourdictionary.com or www.alphadictionary.com
www.wordnet.princeton.edu
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl.
www.designskilz.com/free-photos
www.creativecommons.org
Tools for verifying and assessing the validity of social media and user-generated content
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/19/15
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
We compress sound files into lossy formats such as mp3. The assumption is that most of what is thrown away in the process we humans couldn’t hear anyway. Maybe not. Here’s why.