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Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the return of President Ahmadinejad’s blog will be airing today. Will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): New York – 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 – 89.7…

For the record, I’ve left Engadget entirely, and have rejoined MacUser.

I’ve been tagged by Glenn Fleishman for the latest blogger meme du jour. I’m supposed to list five things that most people don’t know about me. 1. My only run-in with school authorities came when I was in kindergarten. I was suspended for one day for biting Lee Kramer, a friend of mine (yes, we’re still friends) on the hand. Basically, at recess there was a shopping cart full of balls (for four-square, handball, etc.) and it was always a…

Let’s all welcome my brother Alex Farivar to the blogosphere!

I was interviewed last week by Sree, Dean of Students at Columbia for the Blogging for Journalists site.

Here’s Becky’s new blog. Go say hi!

JournalismJobs: JournalismJobs.com: How does a weekly news magazine stay relevant in this up-to-the-minute news world? Karen Breslau [San Francisco bureau chief, Newsweek]: Just because people are pelted with information from morning until night, they haven’t lost the basic human hunger for a good story. In that sense, a good newsmagazine story is the un-blog: it’s richly reported, it’s coherent, it puts things into context, it gives you ideas to think about for more than 3 seconds and for God’s sake,…

My cousin Nena do Nascimento (who I lived with in Switzerland) is studying abroad in Brazil this year, on her junior year abroad at McGill University. She’s just started a LiveJournal. For those of you who’ve studied abroad before, some words of encourgement I’m sure would be appreciated. Go Nena!

Welcome back, Dave.

Now that I can afford proper hosting, and am sort sick of the fact that I can’t have comments turned on in my blog unless I want to be subjected to comment spam in Moveable Type, I’m migrating to WordPress. Subsequently, I have a new, cleaner layout. All the old posts since Jan. 2004 are in the archives here. If I did this correctly, the Feedburner feed should stay live, (I just edited what it points to), and the cfarivar.org…