Journalism

I can now die a happy tech journalist. I interviewed Vint Cerf last week at Lift!

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the use of Helios in the university election at Université Catholique de Louvain is airing today. It 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 –…

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…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the launch of the new BBC Persian television service is airing today. It 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 –…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the “refocusing” of the One Laptop Per Child project is airing today. It 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 –…

Dear Friends, My piece on the American release of Alan’s War aired on The World on December 22. I apologize for the late notice — this got caught up in my vacation backlog. Audio is here. Happy New Year to all!

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on the possible arrest of Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan will be airing today. It 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 –…

Ok, so it actually launched nine days ago. Still, big ups to my buddy David Cohn and his new community–funded journalism site, Spot.us! I’ll let him explain: Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my radio piece on Inveneo will be airing today. It 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 FM – www.wgbh.org San…

Salon has been kind enough to invite me back to take the helm of Machinist. I’ll be blogging every day, Monday through Friday, starting tomorrow! Come on by, leave a comment or three, and be sure to add us on Facebook and Twitter.