About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Archive for 2008
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Christmas vacation begins!
Posted on December 23, 2008 | 1 CommentWhile walking around the European Parliament building last week, I invented a new gang sign. EU in da house, y’allz! We spent a great three days putzing around the Marché de Noël in Strasbourg. We’re now in Paris until Sunday, then Lyon for a night.... -
First drafts are in.
Posted on December 11, 2008 | 4 CommentsHoly crap. The Internet of Elsewhere might actually be real — I just filed my first draft. Grand total word count came to about 83,000 words. I’m pretty stoked but also deathly afraid. I apologize if I haven’t been very communicative over these past few... -
Updated: Estonia approves voting via mobile phone. (Not exactly.)
Posted on December 11, 2008 | 6 CommentsThe Estonian parliament (pictured) has just approved a bill to let Estonian citizens vote via their mobile phone. This makes the country the first country in the world to do so, and comes about 20 months after Estonia held its first nation-wide election where the... -
Working the night away in France
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How to swap or give-away SIM cards?
Posted on December 10, 2008 | 5 CommentsIn the last year, I’ve been to Finland (where I bought a temporary SIM card for my three-day trip there). I also have SIM cards for Iran, Estonia, the Netherlands, France, the US, Senegal and others. But once I get home, these SIM cards are... -
Hossein Derakhshan was really arrested
Posted on December 9, 2008 | 2 CommentsSanam Dolatshahi, an Iranian blogger now living in Florida, says that the arrest of Hossein Derakhshan has been confirmed by his family in Tehran. The arrest has also been confirmed by a friend of the family’s, as quoted in today’sThe Globe & Mail. To be... -
ITU’s new data: “Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2008″
Posted on December 3, 2008 | 3 CommentsI’ve just flipped through the International Telecommunications Union recently released executive summary of their Telecom Reform 2008 report. The ITU says that there are now 1.5 billion Internet users worldwide, and 4 billion mobile phone users. Oh, and then there’s also this: ITU’s Internet and... -
SF Chron: New land-use law’s message: build near transit
Posted on December 2, 2008 | No CommentsSF Chronicle: But [Stephanie Reyes, senior policy advocate with San Francisco's Greenbelt Alliance] and other advocates acknowledge that the importance of SB375, signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in late September, lies as much in the tone it sets as in what it will... -
Mumbai Attacked
Posted on November 26, 2008 | No CommentsScott Carney, an American journalist friend living in Chennai (nowhere near Mumbai), describes the situation as “unbelievable,” adding that this is the “first time that there has been real urban warfare in the country.” He points me to the SAJA Forum for some good online... -
NYT: Where the Traffic Median Is a No-Pilates Zone
Posted on November 25, 2008 | No CommentsThis is exactly why Santa Monica was a great place to grow up, but why I have no desire to live there again. NYT: That warning the other day was among hundreds that have been issued in a culturally tumultuous crackdown by Santa Monica officials...
