Cyrus Farivar

The Daily Northwestern: “Eviting” is a rising trend on Northwestern’s campus that has become a common term among students. The site — www.evite.com — was originally intended as a corporate tool, first popular with the “Silicon Valley techie circle,” said Heather Soule, the company’s public relations manager. She said there recently has been a demographic shift toward college campuses. Evite.com is a free event-planning Web site that was launched in 1998. InterActiveCorp, which owns Web sites such as Ticketmaster and…

“The Iran Plans”, The New Yorker; April 17, 2006: In recent weeks, the President has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of Congress, including at least one Democrat. A senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, who did not take part in the meetings but has discussed their content with his colleagues, told me that there had been “no formal briefings,” because “they’re reluctant to brief the minority. They’re…

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Not to be outdone by Rolling Stone, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is looking for a new talent scout team: CPB will fund two competing teams who will each identify three new on-air hosts and work with them to produce broadcast pilots. Each team will receive a one-year $250,000 grant. At the end of the year, CPB staff and an independent panel will review the pilots and choose the top talent, whom CPB will recommend for additional funding to bring…

Reuters: “We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it,” [Fanny Amun, acting Secretary-General of the Nigerian Football Association] told Reuters on Friday. Amun first made the statement earlier in the week to a football seminar in the capital Abuja, prompting protests from other officials. “Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn’t favour those offering the bribe,” Amun said. [via MeFi]

New York magazine calls on The New York Times to abandon its print operation entirely. It is worth it to preserve value for the future, to make it so our kids don’t think, Let me go to Google for all the news that’s fit to print. Heck, in another couple of years they won’t even know that the New York Times exists as anything but private-label news source for an Internet portal. Memo to NYT: I don’t know anyone my…

I’m a fan of redesigns, particularly on the web of sites that I love. If you haven’t seen it yet, NYTimes.com has now been redone. I like the new layout, the new font, and the buttons at the top. What’s missing? For starters, the “blogged” button is the right idea, but only comes halfway. I want to know which blogs are talking about the NYT articles. Just telling me that some article is the most blogged is sort of meaningless.…

Here’s the answers. Becky wins, with 24 points. Rebekah came in at a strong second, and had the best answer to the music bonus: “Tarkan opening for the Spice Girls.” HA!

Sam Freedman, CBS News; March 31, 2006: Instead of providing the ultimate marketplace of ideas, however, cable TV and the Internet have become the ultimate amen corner, where nobody ever need encounter an opinion, much less a fact, that runs counter to what he or she already believes. To treat an amateur as equally credible as a professional, to congratulate the wannabe with the title “journalist,” is only to further erode the line between raw material and finished product. For…

Big ups to The Arab Rabbi for pointing this out to me: Rain WonderTrip, a new videogame for the PSP featuring your favorite Korean pop star, Rain. Rain Wonder Trip is a variety game featuring Korean R&B singer Rain. In the game, players go on a virtual trip with the pop star and peruse various minigames and features focused on him, including original movies, fortune-telling, quizzes, and backstage material from his live performances and other events. The game will be…