2009

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on the recent Where 2.0 conference in San Jose is airing this week on CBC’s Spark! It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 NT) Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 NT) If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast.

The New York Times, June 1 2009: SAN SALVADOR — Having sent the Iranian people a video greeting on their New Year, President Obama is now inviting them to help celebrate a quintessentially American holiday, the Fourth of July. Last Friday, the State Department sent a cable to its embassies and consulates around the world notifying them that “they may invite representatives from the government of Iran” to their Independence Day celebrations — annual receptions that typically feature hot dogs,…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the how the June 12 Iranian election is playing out online is airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): NYC – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern…

Although it’s been a few months now, I’m proud to (belatedly) announce my participation in 80+1, a new and exciting project to celebrate the city of Linz, Austria as one of the European Union cities of culture for 2009. I should tip my virtual hat to David Sasaki, who is also participating in this project. While living in our house in Oakland when we were in France, David recommended me to be the Online Content Manager for 80+1. I have…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the President Obama’s speech on the new White House cybersecurity strategy is airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): NYC – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 12 pm Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston – 4 pm Eastern…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the March 18th Movement is airing today. This is a related piece to a story I did previously on the tragic death of Iranian blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi, who died while in custody in Evin Prison under sketchy circumstances. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): NYC – 3 pm Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 8 pm Eastern –…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio commentary on how the Internet made me “culturally lazy” while living in France is airing this week on CBC’s Spark! It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 NT) Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 NT) If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast.

Interview with Barack Obama Newsweek, May 25, 2009 And the last movie you saw? Now, movies I’ve been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house … So Star Trek, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out and—[the president makes the Vulcan salute with his hand]. Very good. Yes, absolutely. Did you watch…

Big ups to my buddy Andy Raskin, whose memoir The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life has just been released. I attended a reading of his at Booksmith last night in the Lower Haight. But don’t worry, he’s on tour in SF and points beyond this month and throughout the summer. Check his site for details. Andy wrote and produced one of my all-time favorite pieces of radio — on the subject…