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Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on getting my 88-year-old grandmother her first cell phone is on Spark this week! It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 1:05/1:35 NT (4:05 PT) Tuesday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 3:05/3:35 NT If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast. [audio:http://cyrusfarivar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/plus-spark_20100523_spark114d.mp3]

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on password sharing in relationships is on this week. It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 1:05/1:35 NT (4:05 PT) Tuesday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 3:05/3:35 NT If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast.

I’m a little behind on keeping up with my own work these days. I’ve been busy with getting ready for Germany, a book deadline and some personal issues lately. That said, I’m tearing things up north of the border. I was interviewed by the ever tenacious Jesse Brown on Search Engine to talk about my recent visit to Washington, D.C. to attend Secretary Clinton’s speech on Internet Freedom. You can check out that interview here. I’m also on CBC Spark…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on the world’s first custom-designed Islamic search engine, IMHalal.com, is airing this week on CBC’s Spark! It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 NT) Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 NT) If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast.

Amigos, this weekend marks the premiere of the third season of CBC’s (that’s the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, folks) tech culture show, “Spark.” They’ve got a new time slot (Starting September 13: Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 1:05/1:35 NT (4:05 PT) and/or Tuesday afternoons on CBC Radio One at 3:05/3:35 NT) and have been expanded from a half-hour to a full hour. Regardless of where you are, you can listen to the show — right now! — here, or…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio commentary on how the Internet made me “culturally lazy” while living in France is airing this week on CBC’s Spark! It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 NT) Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 NT) If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast.

I had the honor of being interviewed (again!) by Jesse Brown on his CBC show, “Search Engine“, to talk about Iranian blogging and to (again) provide an update on the Hossein Derakhshan situation. You can download the podcast here.

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the recent LIFT conference that I attended in Geneva is airing tomorrow on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. That’s right, my radio career has gone international! It will be available on your local CBC station at the following times: Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 NT) Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 NT) If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or…

As a little preview to my appearance this week on CBC’s Spark, the team up in Toronto has posted a 35-minute interview that I did with Vint Cerf a couple weeks ago while at the LIFT conference in Geneva. The full podcast should be available later this week. Also, if you’re in Canada, let me know if you hear me on the radio!

I had the honor of being interviewed (again!) by Jesse Brown on his CBC show, “Search Engine“, to talk about Iranian blogging and to provide an update on the Hossein Derakhshan situation. You can download the podcast, once Toronto wakes up, here. Update (6:34 am Pacific): Here’s the permalink. I had no idea I was Search Engine’s Senior Unpaid Iranian Affairs Correspondent. Sweet!