Cyrus Farivar

Within the last 24 hrs, I’ve had readers from: Australian Trade Commission Disney Yale University Mogadishu, Somalia (via a British ISP?) Norway The Netherlands Canada Belgium Chile France Poland University of Utah and a bunch of people from somethingisawful.com, which I’m too cheap to buy a membership to. If someone wants to buy me a membership, I’d be eternally grateful.

My j-school classmate, totally r0x0r piano player and songwriter, and all-around kickass journo Jennifer Weiss writes in the latest issue of CJR about a dirty secret of journalism — where are the women? by Jennifer Weiss Bylines in the nation�s top intellectual and political magazines are heavily male, as shown by these ratios (male/female), calculated using the ProQuest database from October 2003 through the end of May. At several magazines, women writers were occasionally shut out of entire issues. National…

Support Judith Miller: I support the decision of Judith Miller to refuse to disclose her confidential sources. Journalists are not above the law, but must be independent and free from government control if they are to effectively serve as government watchdogs. Cyrus Farivar, Assistant Editor, Macworld

From San Francisco, and my recent trip to LA, with lots of food photos. Maria/Boyk, eat your hearts out.

I’m not normally one for conspiracy theories, but this is just damned weird: AP: JERUSALEM – Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on his way to a hotel near the scene of one of the London blasts Thursday when he received a call to stay put, the foreign minister said. “After the first explosion, our finance minister received a request not to go anywhere,” Finance Minister Silvan Shalom told Israel Army Radio. Netanyahu was to have been the scheduled keynote…

Newsweek, July 18 2005: For two years, a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has been investigating the leak of Plame’s identity as an undercover CIA agent. The leak was first reported by columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. Novak apparently made some arrangement with the prosecutor, but Fitzgerald continued to press other reporters for their sources, possibly to show a pattern (to prove intent) or to make a perjury case. (It is illegal to knowingly identify an undercover CIA officer.)…

News and Record (Greensboro, N.C.): By Eric Collins, Staff Writer News & Record June 18, 2005 GREENSBORO — All Syidah Mateen wanted was to give Muslim witnesses the chance to be sworn in on the Quran before testifying in Guilford County courtrooms. Update: Judge’s statements spark controversy The decision to deny the use of the Quran for oaths of a Washington-based Islamic civil rights group. But an attempt by the Greensboro Islamic center to donate copies of the Muslim holy…

Courtesy Wonkette: Judith Miller c/o Alexandria Detention Center 2001 Mill Road Alexandria, VA 22314

So it’s official now. As of July 18, I will begin my new job as the Assistant Editor at Macworld magazine. Huzzah! Freelancing will take a backseat to Macworld, but all those pubs that I’ve been writing for (and some that I’m still working on) haven’t heard the last of me yet!

Wow, I scooped the AP by more than six months. w00t!