My Book Archive

  • First drafts are in.

    First drafts are in.

    Posted on December 11, 2008 | 4 Comments
    Holy 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...

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  • Working the night away in France

    Working the night away in France

    Posted on December 10, 2008 | No Comments

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  • Cyrus on Global Voices

    Cyrus on Global Voices

    Posted on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
    Hamid Tehrani of Global Voices conducted an email interview with me about my forthcoming book, tentatively titled The Internet of Elsewhere. Cyrus Farivar is a USA-based blogger, journalist and writer. He is currently working on a book about the impact of the internet on society....

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  • One quarter (roughly) done

    One quarter (roughly) done

    Posted on December 17, 2007 | 2 Comments
    Wow. I just finished a very very very rough draft of the Iran section of my book. Yikes. This writing stuff is hard. It weighs in — with a few thousand words’ worth of holes — at about 22,000 words right now.

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  • President Ilves, on the Internet in Estonia

    President Ilves, on the Internet in Estonia

    Posted on September 20, 2007 | 3 Comments
    Baltic Times: [Estonian President Toomas Hendrik] Ilves also talked up Estonia’s reputation as a centre of hi-tech excellence, saying: “Estonia has some positive experiences, like digitalised public services, that deserve to be explored by the others. We have gone far in reducing paper bureaucracy –...

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  • William Gibson, on the Internet

    William Gibson, on the Internet

    Posted on September 1, 2007 | No Comments
    “Had nations better understood the potential of the Internet, I suspect they might well have strangled it in its cradle. Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.” – William Gibson Directors Guild of America’s Digital Day Los...

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  • Halfway home

    Halfway home

    Posted on January 26, 2007 | No Comments
    Well, my trip is basically half over. In two and a half weeks, I’ll be on a plane bound for the US. Next Saturday morning, local time, I’ll be on a plane bound for Paris, with a stopover in Casablanca airport, the beginning of the...

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  • I’m out of the country until Feb. 14

    I’m out of the country until Feb. 14

    Posted on January 9, 2007 | No Comments
    I’ll be on the road (West Africa, Europe) until February 14. Until then, I’m best reached by email or Skype (cfarivar ; 510.931.5564). I’ll be getting a Senegalese number and an Estonian number as well. Ask me if you need it. See you guys soon!

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  • Finding a cheap hotel in London en route to Stansted airport

    Finding a cheap hotel in London en route to Stansted airport

    Posted on January 5, 2007 | 2 Comments
    So due to the magic of EasyJet, I have a $50 flight from London to Tallinn in exactly a month. One problem though, is that the flight is from Stansted Airport, which is basically not near anything — meaning, it’s about 30 miles northeast of...

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  • I got a book deal!

    I got a book deal!

    Posted on December 21, 2006 | 11 Comments
    “When the things got for real, I got up in the fold / and put into practice all that I was told.” - “The Inkwell”, Blue Scholars Things are getting pretty freakin’ real right about now, that’s for sure. I just got a book deal....

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