Cyrus Farivar (born April 20, 1982 in Santa Monica, California) is an assistant editor at Macworld magazine and is a freelance technology journalist living in the city of Compton, CA.
He has a B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Wired News, Slate, Mobile magazine, Playlist Magazine, Oakland City Magazine, Business 2.0, The San Mateo Daily Journal, MacAddict, The Age (Australia), and The Daily Californian. He was one of the first journalists to cover the concept of Podcasting in the New York Post.
Farivar gained some small degree of Internet infamy in August 2005 from a piece in the online magazine Slate in which he details his own participation in debunking an Internet-based prank that attempted to fool the mass media into covering a fictitious practice called “greenlighting.” In the article he also boasted about creating this entry about himself on Wikipedia (“Yes, I added an entry on myself to Wikipedia. Why haven’t you?”).
These guys are super creative, let me tell you. Because clearly changing my birthday from January 2 to April 20 is a low blow. And ouch, I live in Compton now, not in Oakland? Yikes. Oh, and The New York Times was changed to — gasp! — the New York Post!
If there’s anything that this whole fiasco proves, it’s that people on the Internet have way too much time on their hands.
And honestly, guys, go ahead, delete my entry. Watch me not care. Then see how much of an “egomaniac” I am.
