Cyrus Farivar

I’ll have a story in tomorrow’s edition of Wired News. (Rachel will too, actually.) I have five Gmail invites. Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t have one yet? First five to email, get ’em.

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So we had a break from our NYPD RNC briefing for about an hour before Jack Shafer of Slate fame (who interestingly seemed to dismiss the concept of j-school in this Slate article circa 2002) and I headed down Broadway to supplement my two-hour-old lunch of a single small apple. I came upon Absolute Bagels today, the best bagels in the city (according to Pacific Time on KQED) and had a $0.95 cinnamon raisin bagel with butter. It was firm…

Ed: Jack Shafer of Slate fame came to talk to the J-school today. He challenged the audience to live-blog this at the beginning, so I did. This is a rough account of his talk. The joke is on the people who aren’t new media people. In the last 10-15 yrs, we’ve seen a convergence of media all into one. It begins at a New Media project. They’re weaving a new media before they rebroadcast it as a newspaper. That’s really…

Ed: “Doc” refers to Dr. Frank X. Ford, the theatre director at Samohi. Audrey says: Talked to Doc today, and he seemed really sweet and pleasant for the first time in ages. I asked him about Carl Hammer, and he said that Mr. Hammer and his wife had taken in an abandoned, fucked up girl who didn’t have a proper home, to live with them as sort of a foster child. Apparently, she confused herself with who the “enemy” was…

Guerrilla Dancing Update (from John Perry Barlow, of the Grateful Dead and EFF fame): Along with fifty or sixty others, I’m going to dance at them. Dividing ourselves into several platoons of guerrilla dancers disguised as ordinary pedestrians, we are going to roam the sidewalks in Republican rich zones, periodically erupting into wild and inexplicable explosions of dancing. We will sustain these for a few minutes before melting back into the crowd and heading off to strike someplace else. I…

First things first. My Wired story is now online here. Last weekend: On Saturday morning, we left for Montreal from Hartford through upstate New York at about 7:30 am. There’s not a lot to see en route, except for that at Saratoga Springs, we found a cool coffee and bagel shop which provided great respite from the pounding rain that we encountered nearly the whole way. Once we got north of Plattsburg, we approached the Canadian border — and I…

The new issue of Wired is out, the one with the Governator on the cover — I have a short profile piece on this kid called Aaron Swartz. Go buy a copy, cause it’s not online yet. I was in Canadia this weekend, taking my cousin Nena back to McGill in Montreal. What a cool town. Lots of French stuff, and lots of stuff I didn’t get a chance to explore. I came back with a bellyful of poutine, and…

That was the sage advice from Bill Gorta, of the New York Post, a former cop turned journalist, who offered it up as his main tip to us — or in other words, don’t live and die amongst other journalists — get out and experience other things. This week has been plagued by more repetitive lectures, orientations, drills, et cetera. So far, (and at least one student agrees with me) I’ve found that we have a great deal of exercises…

Ed: I was in the band from August 1995 to June 1997 and from August 1998 to June 2000. As far as everyone I knew was concerned, Dr. Carl Hammer was something of a no-nonsense teacher, but overall was a good trombone player and cared deeply about the marching band. I’m really shocked. Surf Santa Monica ; August 18 2004 By Olin Ericksen Staff Writer August 17 — For the second time in two months, a Santa Monica High School…