Archive for the ‘Notes From The Electronic Cottage’ Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Well, the Australians seem to have decided that a national ID card isn't for them.  In the U.S., not only are we moving toward a de facto national ID card, we're also spending a billion dollars of taxpayer money so the FBI can amass the largest biometric database ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Think your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a utility like your electric company or phone company? Think again. These days many ISPs are looking to "monetize their assets" and guess what their assets are? That's right, you
and me and where we go and what we do on the ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic: These days, we hear that the Internet is killing libraries. That would be a surprise to the hundreds of thousands of Mainers who find that today's libraries are both "brick" and "click," both physical spaces and gateways to the cyber world of information, including information we would ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Law affects technology. And technology affects law. A good example of the latter is the Real ID act which, despite opposition from over half of the states, is still being put into effect by Homeland Security. Maine offers a good example of what happens when push comes to ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Need to find basic factual info quickly? The Internet has you covered. Here are a few sites that meet our info-seeking criteria: the information is free, the site is clear and well organized, and you can get to the info
you're looking for with one click.
Weather - www.nws.noaa.gov
Phone numbers ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic: In these days of electronic communication, we hear a lot of talk about encrypting messages to keep their contents safe from the prying eyes of government and corporate eavesdroppers. But just what is encryption, and where did the idea come from. Here's a little cryptography 101 primer ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic: Thirty-five years ago, Nicholas Sheridan at Xerox PARC came up with Gyricon, a process that presaged the effort to create electronic paper. Ever since, electronic paper has been, according to its promoters, "just around the corner." Many false starts later, that claim may finally be true today ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Perhaps we need a new bumper sticker these days that asks "What would the Founders say?" Today's technology places immense power in the hands of government. Even though they could not specifically foresee today's technologies - like involuntary DNA collection - the Founders and drafters of our Constitution ...
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