September 2009

I have the honor of speaking at the “Emerging Technologies & Media Mythologies” conference at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Tuesday, October 6, 2009. I’ll be the Tuesday lunchtime speaker, where I’ll be talking about the Iranian Internet, before and after the recent election — I’ll be drawing from my forthcoming book, “The Internet of Elsewhere,” (Rutgers University Press, 2011). I’m truly flattered to be invited to take the place of Iranian journalist and human rights activist, Akbar…

Amigos, this weekend marks the premiere of the third season of CBC’s (that’s the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, folks) tech culture show, “Spark.” They’ve got a new time slot (Starting September 13: Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 1:05/1:35 NT (4:05 PT) and/or Tuesday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 3:05/3:35 NT) and have been expanded from a half-hour to a full hour. Regardless of where you are, you can listen to the show — right now! — here, or…

So I’ve been so busy with my New York gig that I’ve barely had time to blog, but I’ve been in Linz for the last couple days, working at the Ars Electronica 2009 conference. I’m moderating the cloud computing panels today, which you can watch live here. We start at 08h30 GMT/10h30 Linz/01h30 Pacific. Also, I walked around the show floor a little bit with Sonja Bettel and met up with the Drink Pee folks for the latest episode of…

Cyrus Farivar | 01 Sep 2009 On June 20, 2009, as she watched demonstrators at an Iranian reformist protest gather on Tehran’s Kargar Avenue, Neda Agha-Soltan, 27, was suddenly shot in the chest and killed, ostensibly by a nearby Basij militiaman. Had this tragic incident taken place just a few years earlier, it might have been lost to history. As it happened, however, two separate amateur videos of Neda’s shooting and subsequent death were quickly posted online, where they spread…