August 2005

Before I get to the fan mail, I find it even more amusing that Jimmy Wales himself has gotten involved. And if this further drives my “egomaniac” tendencies, so be it. Best article I’ve read in a while. Brilliant! The toothing hoax was so good that not only didn’t I know that it was a hoax, but CSI Miami Season 3 Episode 20 “Killer Date” was specifically about “toothing” and the consequences of it (in this case a cop loses…

Tomorrow, I’m going to be on the Adler On Line show on Winnipeg’s CJOB starting at 12:40 pm Pacific for about 10 minutes to talk about the greenlighting fiasco and my subsequent Slate article.

Yipee! 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…

Check it: Cyrus Farivar * Journalist’s article is getting vandalized in a variety of ways by multiple users for exposing an Internet hoax (“greenlighting”). –Tysto 23:09, 2005 August 1 (UTC)

My Wikipedia entry now says that I’m Arnold Schoenberg.

So a new round of Wikipedia “Vote for Deletion” has been added to my entry: I’ve currently got support from Adrian Lamo and Jason Snell! Voting currently stands at 3 to keep and 2 to delete. This whole thing is really hilarious. For more on this, see the comments from the last entry. This pretty much sums up how I feel about this: I understand your concern, I just happen to disagree with it. If my entry were guilty of…

So my Slate article, not surprisingly, has drawn new attention to my Wikipedia entry, which had lay quiet for awhile. Vandalism returned, and the Wiki vigilantes have come to my rescue, and I’ve popped in to edit my own entry once or twice. I’ve drawn the attention of a few people, including one Todd Morman, who wrote in from North Carolina to say that I’d violated the Wikipedia policy of vanity pages. My response is as follows: Todd, Thanks so…

If you’ve found my blog courtesy of Slate/Wikipedia, I’d love to hear from you. Email me!

Green Collar Crime How I stopped an Internet sex hoax. By Cyrus Farivar Posted Monday, Aug. 1, 2005, at 9:31 AM PT A tip for all of you aspiring investigative reporters: When you expose an Internet sex hoax, there are going to be consequences. Take it from me. My sleuthing got me an unplanned role in a piece of erotic fiction that starred Chewbacca as a Wookiee Casanova. It all started on the weekend of July 4, when I spotted…