Gilberto Gil on DemocracyNow (on lots of stuff including Creative Commons)- June 25, 2008 A great interview by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman of Gilberto Gil.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/gilberto_gil_on_democracynow_o.html my brilliant congresswoman- June 25, 2008 So it has been a fantastic week watching my new member of Congress, Jackie Speier, do her work. The first was her strong opposition to local moth spraying. "The USDA has the wrong approach," said Speier. "It's spray and ask questions later, and we can't allow them to do that." Exactly right. Then she voted against the FISA compromise. (You know my view about that.) And now she's joined with a GOP-hero of mine, Jeff Flake (R-AZ), to fight earmarks. Speier: "The biggest surprise since Ive been.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/my_brilliant_congresswoman.html focus- June 22, 2008 As with many of my friends, the last couple weeks have brought decisions I would wish went the other way. Whether or not Obama can raise all the money he needs from small contributions, candidates for the House and Senate can't. So I am worried about a decision that makes public funding for them less likely. I understand it. But I worry about it. Likewise, with the FISA compromise. Or at least, likewise in the sense that I don't like the FISA compromise. Or at least, the telco immunity in the...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/focus.html JZ on Colbert tonight- June 18, 2008 Zittrain was on The Colbert Report.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/jz_on_colbert_tonight.html On privacy in the cyberage (II)- June 14, 2008 I've gotten lots of email and comments about my criticism of privacy-revealing behavior related to Chief Judge Kozinski. After reading that criticism, I am more convinced. Privacy is not determined by technology: The core point that's important to me here is to reject the sense many have that "privacy" is that stuff you can't get access to technically. So something's private if encrypted, but if there's a way for me to hack into it, it is public. I reject that sense of the norm of privacy....http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/on_privacy_in_the_cyberage_ii.html nextgen netroots technology- June 14, 2008 So we've made some significant progress at Change Congress on the funding front. Joe Trippi and I are now in a position to staff the organization properly. We're now looking for the key next generation netroots organizer -- a kid who expects to be running net operations for a Presidential campaign in 2012. If you're that kid, let them know at Change Congress. We need you soon. Update: Some wonder whether by "kid" I mean we're hiring just an intern or something like that. Not at all. I mean...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/nextgen_netroots_technology.html I signed my first online petition in many years- June 13, 2008 Against the Orphan Works Act of 2008. (Obviously I'm not keen about the "eternity" part in the petition, but one doesn't need to support the ultimate ends of an ally to find an ally.) (See also my oped about a month ago.) Almost a decade since the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, and we've still learned nothing.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/i_signed_my_first_online_petit.html The Kozinski mess- June 12, 2008 So the wires are a twitter with the story of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's "web site" which, from reading the stories, you'd think was filled with porn (and worse), revealing a dark soul who, some experts in legal ethics suggest, shouldn't be presiding at an obscenity trial. That, you think, is what I mean by "the Kozinski mess." It's not. What I mean by "the Kozinski mess" is the total inability of the media -- including we, the media, bloggers -- to get the basic facts right, and keep the...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/the_kozinski_mess.html NCMR keynote- June 7, 2008 The June 6 keynote at FreePress's National Conference for Media Reform. Here's the link to a video of the event, with the slides somtimes mixed in. Here's a YouTube version -- quality much better than I've seen with other conversions.http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/ncmr_keynote_1.html Hilary on Hillary (from the better-than-I-could-put-it department)- June 4, 2008 Longtime HRC supporter Hilary Rosen on Hillary Clinton: I am also so very disappointed at how she has handled this last week. I know she is exhausted and she had pledged to finish the primaries and let every state vote before any final action. But by the time she got on that podium last night, she knew it was over and that she had lost. I am sure I was not alone in privately urging the campaign over the last two weeks to use the moment to take her due, pass the torch and cement her grace. She...http://lessig.org/blog/2008/06/hilary_on_hillary_from_the_bet.html |