Had a short appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio: Former New York mayor Ed Koch, then Steve Coll and Barnett Rubin, and then Sarah Chayes and I discuss the next President and policy in Pakistan and Afghanistan:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/10 /30/segments/114093.
Brian mentions me as an intern, though I don’t know that I can claim that formal a relationship with WNYC; I used to help with their website and some online efforts on a volunteer basis when I lived in New York in the late ’90s.
EFF’s BayFF on Social Media in Activism
I attended a “BayFF” event by the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the role of social media in the recent events in Iran. They also had someone from the EFF talk about the situation and events in South America, so I offered to talk about Pakistan–and ended up talking a bit more broadly about South Asia and beyond, as well. Read More »