Blogs

For those of you who have been following this blog for awhile now, may remember that I was going to be a book editor back in December 2004 for a new book about Persian blogs. My editorship ended up not working out, as the publishing house had their own. However, the book is going to be coming out in a few months under the name We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs. Pre-order the book here. Congratulations to Nasrin!

For his first piece (the lead story, no less) in Wired News, on Cambodian blogs. Matt emailed me awhile back asking how to break into the freelance world, and will be attending Columbia this fall. Great job, Matt!

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.

Last week, I was interviewed by Rob Wessman, who’s in town for a conference of high school journalism teachers. His story came out today. Check out my new glamour shot. ÒBlogs scare the living daylights out of most journalists,Ó declares Cyrus Farivar, a Bay Area freelance journalist and blogger. ÒBlogs are constantly making fun of the media, saying that the media is biased one way or another.Ó Mike Warren, News Editor of the San Francisco office of the Associated Press,…

So I’m reading this article about Jerry Brown’s blog. “Everyone who has something interesting to say cannot afford not to be saying it in a blog as well,” said Sreenath Sreenivasan, a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism who follows the blogosphere. Speaking of blogs, Happy Birthday to Dave Winer.

Women mail their bras to try to save their favorite sci-fi show. (Courtesy Slashdot) BBC covers Hoder’s foray into podcasting. (Courtesy Dave Winer) A blog from Damascus (Courtesy Instapundit) The government of Niger was going to have a 7,000 slave-freeing ceremony — that is, until they changed their mind and decided that there were no slaves in Niger. (Courtesy Instapundit) The magic of the Internet, brings people together through a common historical bond.(Courtesy Daily Kos)

For whatever this is worth: Six Apart (makers of Moveable Type) are buying Live Journal. Maybe now it’ll be easier to duplicate my LJ blog to my MT one.

Aaron, Vishal and I have started a new politics-focused blog. Come check us out here: http://thepartyline.blogspot.com/ Or add us as an LJ friend here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/partyline/ Comments/questions/discussion and guest-posts welcome!

[14:19] AaronSw> yeah, a minute ago or so someone said “the reason cyrus’s piece about podcasts was so good was because cyrus is a blogger” or something like that