Media Appearances

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…

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…

I was asked to contribute some material for Al Jazeera English’s The Listening Post to talk about Iranian bloggers. Apparently this aired today. Sorry that my head is a little cut off — I haven’t shot much video on my MacBook.

I had the honor of speaking on PBS’ new online program, called 5Across. It’s a program hosted and produced by PBS MediaShift’s Mark Glaser. This conversation was taped in San Francisco on July 6, 2009. In a crisis, governments will often curtail freedom of the press, censoring or shutting broadcasts and newspapers. But blocking websites, slowing the Internet or cutting off SMS messaging can be harder to do. Stopping the flow of information online can be a difficult task, as…

I had the honor of being interviewed (again!) by Jesse Brown on his TVO show, “Search Engine“, to provide an update on the Iranian post-election situation. Update: Audio is here.

My former Engadget colleague Randall Bennett interviewed me today on the latest edition of TechVi talking about tech stuff in Iran.

Dear Friends, I was recently interviewed in the studios of Eesti Raadio for BBC’s Digital Planet, which airs globally each week on the BBC World Service. I spoke on what I saw and heard at the recent NATO conference on Cyberwarfare in Tallinn. Download the MP3 here. More from BBC here.

I had the honor of being interviewed (again!) by Marco Werman on “The World” today to talk about the relationship of the Estonian economy to technology. 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 –…

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!

I had the honor of being interviewed by Jesse Brown on his CBC show, Search Engine (now sadly relegated to just podcast status), to talk about the whole Hossein Derakhshan situation. You can download the 15 minute podcast here. As of Thursday, I got a call from Ottawa, saying that the Canadian government had put in a request to their embassy in Tehran to find out if in fact, Derakhshan was arrested. I will check back in with them today.