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…

Am I the last person to find out about this? I caught this fantastic story on Studio 360 this weekend. Apparently Time covered it back in April. Thanks Gregory Brothers!

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the interplay between botnets, cyberattacks and the legal system 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 – WGBH…

This week, I’m on Radio New Zealand’s This Way Up. This Way Up with Simon Morton, is a weekly two-hour radio show broadcast on Radio New Zealand National Saturdays from 12pm-2pm – it explores the things we use and consume. It’s the same story on San Francisco’s TCHO chocolate that I recently did for NPR, but still, it’s fun to have my voice being bounced around the southern hemisphere. Any NZ listeners out there? The piece airs Saturday, Midday –…

I’ve announced this in other places, but I don’t think here on the blog. I’ll be teaching a crash course in radio for a few weeks at my alma mater, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism starting next week. My time there is booking up fast! I arrive in town tomorrow and already have a research day trip to Philadelphia planned as soon as I hit the ground early tomorrow morning, as well as an evening meeting back in Manhattan.…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on TCHO chocolate is on Morning Edition today (August 7). It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams). New York – 5 am to 9 am Eastern – WNYC – 820 AM – www.wnyc.org Washington, DC – 5 am to 10 am Eastern – WAMU – 88.5 FM – www.wamu.org Los Angeles – 2 am to 9 am Pacific – KPCC – 89.3 FM – www.kpcc.opg Boston…

Thanks to all who showed up (and participated online!) at BayFF last night to talk tech, Iran and all kinds of other stuff. It was a pleasure to speak with Danny O’Brien again and meet Jacob Appelbaum of Tor for the first time. Thanks also to David Farris, Alex Farivar and Nate Cardozo for coming and supporting me. Also big ups to Sean Savage (who I’ve written about before, and first met six years ago!) and PariSoMa for organizing this…