Cyrus Farivar

You do have a right to record an interview that I do with you, provided that I consent. Please don’t be like the folks at Promiscuous Bullet in their Oct. 29 podcast, where they broadcast their non-consenual recording of my interview with them. I wouldn’t have so much a problem with this if they’d asked me if they could record, and then asked me if they could podcast it. The interview doesn’t have anything bad, revealing or salacious in it,…

So I was watching the clips that Boing Boing has posted from The Daily Show and I was reminded of a recent idea I had for a new television paradigm: A la carte television. I don’t watch enough TV to justify owning one, let alone paying $40 a month for cable. There just aren’t enough shows that I want to watch on a regular basis. The three things that I do watch, baseball games, Enterprise, and The Daily Show, I…

Thanks Boyk, for turning me onto him. Goes perfectly well with a 74 degree Sunday afternoon in New York City. Speaking of which, I’m thinking about making a New York/Journalism themed CD to sell to J-students as my holiday gift to whoever wants one. Possible tracks include: They Might Be Giants – New York City Royal Crown Revue – A Bronx Hello Count Basie -Take the A’ Train Frank Sinatra – New York, New York Mates of State – Everyone…

Some dudes got arrested today for landing their hot air balloon in Central Park. The men said they were in distress and had been cleared to land by air traffic controllers Ð a claim police disputed. Do air traffic controllers interact with hot air balloons? Is this normal?

So given the attention that my podcasting piece has gotten, with links to my own blog on Scoble’s blog, Paul Boutin’s blog, Dave Winer’s blog and many others, my own blog hasn’t seen ginormous increases in traffic. I’m not looking for amazing traffic numbers, I just figured that this would send my hits through the roof. Maybe it’s still early, but I’m surprised that my post about the Panty Flash to Boing Boing and Fleshbot got me over 7000 unique…

Update 2: I forgot to mention there is a sidebar. Dawn’s name is spelled right there. Update: So my first NYT piece is marred with a mistake and I feel like a total idiot. Dawn Misceli’s name was misspelled. It is properly spelled Dawn Miceli. I apologize. New Food for IPods: Audio by Subscription By CYRUS FARIVAR October 28, 2004 TUCKED away in their old farmhouse in Wayne, Wis., surrounded by dairy farms and cornfields, Dawn Misceli, 28, and Drew…

Measure Q Shall an ordinance be adopted to: 1) make enforcement of prostitution laws the lowest priority; 2) oppose state laws making prostitution a crime; and 3) require semi-annual reporting of prostitution-related Berkeley Police Department law enforcement activities? Financial Implications: Possible increases in law enforcement costs as a result of potential increase in prostitution-related crime and increased reporting requirements. I’m voting yes on this.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 – A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, administration officials said Monday. The opinion, reached in recent months, establishes an important exception to public assertions by the Bush administration since March 2003 that the Geneva Conventions applied comprehensively to prisoners taken in the conflict in Iraq, the officials said. They…

I’m sorry that I’ve been away from any kind of meaningful regular blogging lately. I’ve been really busy with my Times piece, and schoolwork, and the like. Firstly, six Pitcairners have been convicted of rape. What a crazy story. Still looking forward to reading Serpent in Paradise. Anyhow, so much has happened in the last week, I barely know where to begin. Monday: So we had RW1 last Monday, as usual. And as usual we discussed our assignment for the…