WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
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.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Remember that old Monty Python song: “Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.”? It’s a song anyone who uses the Internet could be singing even today. Let’s take a look at why.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
During this last month of WERU’s 20th Anniversary year, we’re digging a few old editions from the Electronic Cottage vault that seem to us to be just as relevant today as they were when they were first broadcast. In this edition from November 2004, we take a look at spam, the scourge of the Internet.
Everything in this years old edition is still true today, except one point.
The one exception is that spam is no longer just 40% of Internet email traffic. Estimates in April 2009 are that it comprises as much as 94% of Internet traffic. It seems that in some parts of the digital world, just as in the physical world, the more things change, the more they stay the same.