Donate to WERU Today!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.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/9/10
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.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/2/10
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
Eurekafund.org, FundScience.org, Sciflies.org – all
sites that allow individuals to help fund science research they are
interested in.
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Notes from Electronic Cottage 11/11/10
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.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/4/10
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.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/28/10
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.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/21/10
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
While it may have been a quiet week in Lake Woebegon, it was pretty busy in cyberspace, especially for Facebook and Google, and not in ways the Internet giants are probably too happy about. Here’s why.
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/14/10
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Security in cyberspace is a big problem – we all know that. But what is the largest cause of security problems in the digital realm? Here’s a little quiz on that subject. See what factor you choose. (Hint: The answer is probably not what you think.)
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