Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
A pot porri today: some science web site; the new policies of Twitter and Google; full body scanners at Maine airports and Senator Collins bill about scanner safety.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
A pot porri today: some science web site; the new policies of Twitter and Google; full body scanners at Maine airports and Senator Collins bill about scanner safety.
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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
oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oec-facts-about-the-language – a look at the most commonly used words in the English language.
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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.
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Homeland security doesn’t often issue alerts about home wireless routers – but they have now. Here’s why.
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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.
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Happy Holidays to all! It’s that time of year when “best of” and “predictions for” lists start appearing. We take a peek at a couple of predictions that, if they come to pass, could make very big differences in our lives.
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In this edition, we update a couple of topics we’ve looked at recently – the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), an alternative to SOPA which troubles many in this country and aboard; and a reminder that our privacy laws are reducing the competitiveness of U.S. companies trying to do business in countries worried about ubiquitous U.S. surveillance of personal information.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Humans love to make predictions – about the weather, about the stock market, and, in the digital age of data collection and data mining, about who is likely to “get into trouble” and who is not. Good idea? Maybe – but maybe not. Here’s why…
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