WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
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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.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
New Year’s is just around the corner, a time of resolutions to do things better than in the past year. It’s also a good time to tweak up the hard drive on your computer. Here are a few hints to help you do that. You’ve probably heard all these suggestions before – in fact, we’ve gone over them before here on the Electronic Cottage. But just in case you didn’t get
around to it last year, here they are again.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
In the spirit of the holidays, only good tech news today. Here are the urls mentioned in the program today:
www.bookshouldbefree.com
www.omniglot.com
And if you would like to read the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, you can find it at www.eff.org/files/warshak_opinion_121410.pdf.
Happy Holidays from the Electronic Cottage!
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
The Wikileaks saga continues. Let’s discus a few more of the implications this sage brings up for those of us who live in the information world of today.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Pretty much everyone has probably heard untold hours of blather about Wikileaks latest publications of “classified” U.S. documents. But what we haven’t been hearing is discussion about issues underlying the Wikileaks furor, so let’s discuss some of them here.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Here are the science web sites mentioned in today’s Electronic Cottage:
www.science.gov – gateway to information from 14 federal agencies
www.data.gov – raw data from federal agencies and tools to analyze it
www.PopSci.com – web site run by Popular Science magazine
www.cosmosmagazine.com – Australian science magazine site for “The Science
of Everything”
www.zooniverse.org – work on real science projects from home
http://Eurekafund.org, http://FundScience.org, http://Sciflies.org – all
sites that allow individuals to help fund science research they are
interested in.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Planning a trip that involves flying? Then you might be interested in the ongoing deployment of full body scanners in the nation’s airports, and in the new TSA procedures on pat downs if you don’t choose to go through these new scanners which render your naked image on a computer screen. Here’s the story.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
We’ve discussed smart meters on a previous program from the perspective of information they can monitor. Today, let’s look at what they can control – one day soon, individual appliances in your house, for example – and what the remote controllable “off switch” on those meters could mean for national security.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Heard about Smart Meters? There’s one coming to your house soon. They are all the rage these days as a way to save money for electric companies and maybe consumers, too. But everything is not all sweetness and light. These meters have the capability to do a lot more than eliminate meter reader jobs. Listen up if you think your home is your castle.