Weekend Voices 8/11/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Cathy Melio, Jim Campbell, Matt Murphy, Marge May

Topics: Hope (Maine) Jazz Festival-an upcoming event; a vintage interview with herbalist and author Doug Elliot; a request for help with a transmitter part needed by our Sister Station, Radio Sumpul in El Salvador; Hannah Sassman on opportunities to protect and expand community radio

FMI: www.dougelliot.com; www.prometheusradio.org;

Family Radio Forum 8/10/07

Producer/host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Topic: Balancing Act– Blending Family and Work Lives

Guests: Leslie Forstadt, Extension Child and Family Development; Cliff Forstadt, lawyer, raised one as single dad; Jane Forstadt, elementary school teacher, raised 3 as a single mom; Steve Adam, father of 2, instructor at University of Maine

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/09/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

These are the lazy, hazy days of summer but that doesn¹t mean that there isvany vacation in cyberspace. Today we reflect on new NSA powers to intercept your phone and email communications; invisible yellow dots made by color laser printers that allow the government to track what printer printed what documents (http://seeingyellow.com, www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/list.php); electronic voting machine vulnerabilities; TASER stun guns in “designer colors;” a new Microsoft patent application that would scan the contents of your hard drive to enable advertisers to better target your interests; and a very nice youtube video that manages to cram a huge amount of information about our world into six minutes (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI).