February 27, 2009
The guy who made the famous Obama poster? I went to a talk tonight at the New York Public Library between him (Shepard Fairey), Lawrence Lessig, and Steven Johnson about how remixing plays into our, on the one hand, corporate and litigious, and on the other, mashing up and free-wheeling, society. He...
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Ben Popken
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January 27, 2009
Last summer at Netroots Nation, Lawrence Lessig of Change Congress wowed us with one of his patented slide presentations, this one focusing on changing the way campaigns are funded. This is not a new idea, of course, but it is one that by all accounts needs new eyes and new blood since all other att...
December 24, 2008
Before commenting on Lawrence Lessig’s latest call to abolish the Federal Communications Commission (he issued a similar call for the FCC’s abolition earlier this year, which I commented on here), let’s recall what Tim Lee posted yesterday about “Real Regulators“: Too m...
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Adam Thierer
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December 15, 2008
Through Larry Lessig, I came to this good piece, written by Andy Oram about Creative Commons. It focuses mainly on the fact that people could support Creative Commons financially (which is important), so I will not write more on that, except that on my very blog, in the top right corner you can clic...
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Veni Markovski
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December 09, 2008
Talk about revenge of the nerds! If President-elect Barack Obama actually fulfills his promises to bring the White House into the Web world, the techiest among us may have the loudest voices of all when it comes to influencing our government. Because let’s face it: It took a year to get used to Fa...
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December 07, 2008
It’s been a big year for tech policy books. Several important titles were released in 2008 that offer interesting perspectives about the future of the Internet and the impact digital technologies are having on our lives, culture, and economy. Back in September, I compared some of the most popu...
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Adam Thierer
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June 27, 2008
Lawrence Lessig ... speaking to a packed house at the DIA user conference keynote. (ot) Seating nailed down at the power strip oasis. Why are there never enough outlets? airports are a special offender in this ... or, maybe i should think about a computer with more than 30 seconds of battery life. D...
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June 02, 2008
Think that fundamentalist Muslims are weird to get upset about a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper? That’s nothing compared to the outrage among fundamentalist Christians here in the United States: They’re saying that Barack Obama cannot be allowed to become President...
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April 25, 2008
Lawrence Lessig's choice of examples to illustrate the vibrant video-mashup scene to Google employees in New York — a fabulous Jesus lipsyncing Gloria Gaynor's anthem "I Will Survive" — was picked apart by Redstate and then picked up by Rush Limbaugh. Mincing down Hollywood Boulevard and...
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March 24, 2008
"Never express yourself more clearly, than you are able to think." Niels Bohr "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." David Ogilvy Today's image: The great below by Violator 3 . Interesting sho...
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