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
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Archive for January, 2009
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BART to get WiFi!
Posted on January 30, 2009 | No CommentsHot damn! I reported on WiFi Rail back in July 2008 for NPR. Well done! From WiFi Rail‘s press release: Service on BART is scheduled to begin on selected segments during 2009. Four downtown San Francisco stations and some segments of the tunnels are already... -
Rick Steves Goes to Iran
Posted on January 30, 2009 | 4 CommentsMy cousin Amir, who I visited while on my Iran (I still need to upload the rest of the photos!) trip in March 2008, just sent me a link to Rick Steves’ hour-long documentary on Iran, which just aired on PBS stations around the country... -
Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack
Posted on January 30, 2009 | 1 CommentFirst Estonia. Then Georgia. Now Kyrgyzstan. Computerworld: A Russian “cybermilitia” has knocked the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan off the Internet, a security researcher said today, demonstrating that the hackers are able to respond even faster than last year, when they waged a digital war... -
“Echolocation” and “Cold”
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsRebecca’s back (again!), with yet another potent pairing of poems, this time in Octopus. I will say that I’m a big fan of “Cold,” as it mentions one of my favorite countries, Estonia! ECHOLOCATION Most days I wear the hunched run of an animal, darting... -
January 26: Cyrus on CBC’s Search Engine
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 1 CommentI had the honor of being interviewed (again!) by Jesse Brown on his CBC show, “Search Engine“, to talk about Iranian blogging and to provide an update on the Hossein Derakhshan situation. You can download the podcast, once Toronto wakes up, here. Update (6:34 am... -
“Cull Canyon” and “The Humanification of Things”
Posted on January 25, 2009 | 1 CommentMy bodaciously brilliant fiancée, Rebecca Guyon, is back with two newly-published poems in Strange Machine, an online poetry journal: Cull Canyon A girl drowned here one summer, and another the summer after that. This never stopped anyone from jumping in the water, murky as it... -
Obama + Roquefort = Crazy Ridiculous (and Delicious)
Posted on January 23, 2009 | 5 CommentsWith Obama in the White House, France is hoping to have a much better relationship — at least culturally and culinarily — with the US. However, shortly before leaving office, the Bush Administration approved a 100 percent import duty on a bunch of EU items.... -
LA Times: Tax hike would put Chuck over its famed Two Bucks
Posted on January 22, 2009 | No CommentsLos Angeles Times, January 21 2009: Is this the end of Two Buck Chuck? A proposal to raise the state tax on wine to a level more than six times higher to help close California’s giant budget deficit would kill the $1.99 price for Charles... -
NY Times: In First Family, a Nation’s Many Faces
Posted on January 21, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe New York Times, January 21 2009: For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than its ruling families. Now the Obama family has flipped that around, with a Technicolor cast that looks almost nothing like their overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly... -
Happy Obama Day!
Posted on January 20, 2009 | No Comments
