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.
SAJA BRIEFING: The South Asian Blogosphere and How Its Changing the Media 8:35pm
Website: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2008/09/26/desiblogs
The South Asian Journalists Association presents an online panel discussion among some of the best-known names in the South Asian blogosphere. They will discuss the state of the blogosphere (South Asian and otherwise) and how it is affecting how news and information about South Asia and the diaspora is gathered and shared. Sabahat Ashraf of iFaqeer; Anil Dash of AnilDash.com; Karthik of Uberdesi.com; Maria Giovanna of Filmiholic.com; Arun Venugopal of SAJAforum.org
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Dr. Safdar Sarki on the Wikipedia
Apologies for the late update, but I recently got the chance to moderate an event at the San Jose Peace Center with Dr. Safdar Sarki organized by one of my primary activist commitments, the Friends of South Asia. [I was not able to provide advance notice because I wasn’t originally scheduled to moderate the event; but Ijaz Syed Saahab had to make an out-of-town trip at short notice.]
You can read the event notice here, and see pictures and a brief write up at Cemendtaur’s “Karachi Photo Blog”.
This also gave me the chance to continue my effort to help improve coverage of South Asian issues on the Wikipedia by contributing one of the pictures from that event (taken by Farhan Shahid using my iPhone, actually) to that database. You can see it at right, or as part of the article on him.