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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 what’s better than Flickr? Flickr + Google Maps! Example: Photo of Boyk at The Bird, click the link that says “GeoTagged” under the photo. Here’s how to do it.

So this morning I noticed that there was an error in my piece in Wired News from this morning. I sent the following email to Leander Kahney, my editor at Wired News: Leander, Thanks for helping me with the story, but I wanted to alert you to an editing error that was introduced into the final version. FINAL: — “Criminals are not real smart,” said Cmdr. Sid Heal in a report. “Their P.O. (parole officer) came out and saw all…

LA Times: A 4.9 magnitude earthquake centered in San Bernardino County rattled a large section of Southern California on Thursday, the third significant temblor to hit the state in less than a week. While the quake did not cause major injuries or damage, it shook nerves across the region just two days after a 7.2 quake off the Northern California coast prompted a tsunami warning and four days after many residents were jolted awake by a 5.2 quake centered near…

Engadget: Out in the land where the automobile is King (you know weÕre talking about California, right?), the LA County SheriffÕs Department has begun field testing a license plate scanning device called the Mobile Plate Hunter 900. Apparently in just one night of use (which is based on the Italian post officeÕs character recognition systems) the device was able to accurately scan over 12,000 license platesÑwhich resulted in seven stolen car recoveries, and helped the po-po in making three arrests…

02:00 AM Jun. 17, 2005 PT by Cyrus Farivar An automatic license-plate reader that can scan 500 license plates an hour looking for stolen vehicles underwent its first field tests by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department last week. Using character-recognition technology developed for the Italian Post Office to read postal addresses, four robot eyes in the course of one night queried more than 12,000 license plates, recovered seven stolen cars and resulted in three arrests. Two of the arrests…

SJ Merc: California taxpayers who hate filling out tax returns might be in luck next tax season. If their tax returns are simple enough, the state will offer to fill out the forms for them. All they’ll have to do is sign — or click online — and pay what’s due. Deeming last season’s experiment with the “ReadyReturn” a success, the state Franchise Tax Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to roll out the program to more taxpayers next tax season.…

5.3 centered out by Riverside/Victorville, 100 miles east of LA. Simon Foster reports that he felt it in Santa Monica. “Just rolling. Not too large.” LA Times: An earthquake struck Southern California early this afternoon, shaking buildings across the region from the desert to the Pacific Ocean. The quake measured 5.3, according to the Brian Grade, a spokesperson for the National Earthquake Center in Golden, Colorado. The quake struck at 1:53 p.m. Pacific time A quake that size is widely…

Check out the trailer for Civ IV (and I do really want to play it), if for nothing but the fantastic parody of Bush. George W. : “I was a big fan of the religious aspect of Civ IV. Big fan. Dating back to the church in Rome. Did you know they spoke Latin back then? A whole language that they spoke.” via MeFi