Internet

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on how Internet tactics have changed by both the Iranian government and the opposition, particularly since Sunday’s Ashura protests, will be airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): NYC – 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…

In the last 24 hours, I’ve been quoted in three major news outlets. The first was Radio Free Asia: 伊朗的用户本身也对此行动表示振奋，在美国的伊朗问题专家和新闻人Cyrus Farivar 表示，“我在推特上搜索关于伊朗消息时，可以看到许许多多中国网民推出的贴上了#cn4iran 标签的话题。他说中国和伊朗的情况有很多相似之处，他认为，中国人也和伊朗人民一样，热烈地珍惜渴望一个自由表达的环境。但他认为官方对互联网的控制要比伊朗严格许多，这也是中国网民的不幸之处 I can’t read this, but here’s what Google makes of it: Iran’s actions by the users themselves have also inspired, in the United States, Iran experts and journalists Cyrus Farivar said, “I was pushing special news search on Iran, you can see many Chinese netizens launched labeled # cn4iran label topic. He said China and Iran, there are many similarities…

Update (January 1, 2010 6:20 pm Pacific Time): I’ve just finished a new post to include news of the last 72 hours. In case you’ve been hiding out in a post/continuing holiday stupor, Iran is going nuts. Like a lot of people, I’ve been glued to Twitter and various websites, trying to get a handle on what’s going on in Iran. I’ve been interviewed by Radio Free Asia and CNN in the last 24 hours to provide my thoughts. And…

The Associated Press, November 14 2009: TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday. Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the committee will fight “insults and the spreading of lies,” terms widely used by the judiciary to describe opposition activities. “Given the spread of…

Leonard Kleinrock is taking the stage now. I’m covering for CBC Spark and The World’s Tech Podcast. Here’s the schedule for today. Live video feed after the jump.

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the new Iraqi law to censor the Internet is airing today. It will be available on any of these stations (and their Internet streams): NYC – 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 –…

PC World, February 20 2009: by Cyrus Farivar In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, recently enacted by Congress, many details regarding the allocation of funds for high-tech projects remain blurry. Nevertheless, the nation’s tech community appears to be encouraged by the $7.2 billion provision for broadband in the near $789 billion economic stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this week. Many observers believe that the allocation is a clear first step toward establishing…

Tim Wu’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Wired connections to the home — cable and telephone lines — are the major way that Americans move information. In the United States and in most of the world, a monopoly or duopoly controls the pipes that supply homes with information. These companies, primarily phone and cable companies, have a natural interest in controlling supply to maintain price levels and extract maximum profit from their investments — similar to how OPEC sets…

So exactly what are “startups championing RSS”? Isn’t that a bit like championing TCP/IP, or HTML? Someone please show me what exactly a company based around RSS is? Hoping to catch the next wave on the Internet, a group of investors has set up a venture capital fund focused on RSS, the technology that allows users to pull selected content from the Web. Based in Cambridge, Mass., RSS Investors, which was formed last week, seeks to raise $100 million to…

Sumana: I mentioned my corporate Slate vs. indie Salon analogy, where Slate is a woman who’s gone right from her father’s house to her husband’s, but Salon is a strong, independent woman who’s been raised by wolves. Ummm, except that Slate has a graduate education and is upwardly mobile, while Salon is still floundering in the forest. I’m sorry, Jack Shafer, Chris Suellentrop and Christopher Hitchens vs. Eric Boehlert, Farhad Manjoo and Mark Benjamin.