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 8/28/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

The Internet of Things is rapidly becoming a part of our daily lives, not just digitally but in the things we interact with every day from cars to thermostats. But just what is The Internet of Things and what potential promise – and problems – does it offer? Listen up.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/21/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

There is an effort across America and here in Maine to digitize medical records into large databases to reduce health care costs and better share patient data among health care providers. But bigger databases are bigger targets for hackers as the theft of 4.5 million records from Community Health Systems demonstrates. Should patients have any say in how or where their personal medical records are stored?

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/14/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

It’s fun to pull a program from the Electronic cottage archives and give it another listen. That’s what we’ll do today on the subject of Power Laws in this piece that is almost 10 years old but still worth a listen – and, we hope, a contribution to WERU’s Funathon, either online at weru.org, or by phone at 800 643-6273.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/31/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

There are nearly 7000 languages spoken in the world today. Some linguists estimate that there may be only 600 left by the end of this century. The web has potential to possibly help record and maybe even preserve some of these languages thanks to machine translation. Here’s why.