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 2/16/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

A couple of interesting web sites to possibly take a look at. The first at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression annually awards the Jefferson Muzzle Awards to individuals or groups that stifle free expression in one way or another in this country. www.tjcenter.org/muzzles/muzzle-archive-2011

The other is a place to get info on how to do things on an iPad, including things you mihgt not know you could do. Check www.howtogeek.com/howto/14529/the-complete-list-of-ipad-tips-tricks-and-tutorials.

And here’s a question to ponder: what would our world be like if there were driverless cars on our roads? That is no longer a far-fetched question. Listen in.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 1/26/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Now that the SOPA and PROTECT-IP bills seem on temporary hold, it’s a good time to take a look at some webs sites that use today’s technologies to make our world more understandable. Here are several:

www.forvo.com – learn to pronounce words in over 280 lanuguages

www.loc.gov/jukebox – the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox site

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oec-facts-about-the-language – a look at the most commonly used words in the English language.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 1/19/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

It seems that discussion over the PROTECT-IP act in the Senate and SOPA in the house is heating up. The mainstream press is now all over this story and important Internet services like Wikipedia, Google, WordPress, Reddit and others staged a day of protest over these proposed acts on January 18, 2012. Let’s catch up on where things stand at present and on some of the larger issues that aren’t getting a lot of attention in the regular press.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/29/11

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Today we wind up our look at IBM’s “5 in 5” list of technologies that will change the tech landscape within five years. The last two predictions are big ones, and a bit hard to swallow but if accurate, will be pretty big in our world.