October 25, 2010, lecture at The American University of Beirut, tells the sto...
28 October, 2010, Portland, OR: Speech given at First Unitarian Church to sup...
22 October, 2010, Barcelona, Spain, speech at the CCCB. Includes the first ti...
Latest version (and first I am some what happy with) of the stump speech. Thi...
September 30, 2010, Cambridge, MA: Opening talk at the Boston Review Forum. T...
25 September, 2010, Louisville, KY: Keynote given at the Coffee Party's Confe...
The latest Change Congress lecture, given at the Democracy in Action Conferen...
An overview presentation made to the FCC at its en banc hearing at Stanford, ...
A call on PA voters to become superdelegates, and bring this cycle to an end.
Why my running for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement.
Announcing exploratory work to launch the Change Congress movement, and explo...
A short(er) video about whether Hillary Clinton could beat John McCain.
A talk at the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, August 13, 2008, synthesizing...
A response to John McCain's technology platform, focused upon the decline in ...
The argument for the Change Congress movement, given at Tides Foundation MOME...
A talk at the iCommons Summit on the history of Creative Commons, given July ...
July 19, 2008 keynote by Lawrence Lessig at Netroots Nation, Austin, TX.
Public Lecture in Auckland, New Zealand, about the war between "prohibitionis...
Keynote at LIANZA (Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) co...
Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news [...]
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A criminally under-worshipped film from the 1980s, Lost in America exists both as a comedic cautionary tale for all those who seek to embrace their inner Thoreau and the notion that well-fed boredom can be toppled by a mindless divorce from the swaddle cloth of society. Co-written, directed and starring Albert Brooks, Lost in America [...]
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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Every week, we’ll take a look at the biggest stories in entertainment news, sports, politics, news news, and pop culture, and we’re going to present them to you here on THE WEEKLY WIND-UP PODCAST in about 15 minutes. Good deal right? Yes, your choice for sound clips is filling you in on all the news [...]
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As I said back when we looked at Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek is not my Star Trek, but like Khan, it is a franchise saving spectacle from the mind of an interloper. It’s another film that twists the nethers of purists while serving as a gateway drug to the uninitiated. Sure, [...]
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We knew that changes would come when Don and Ted merged SCDP and CGC, but while this week’s episode did show off some of those anticipated growing pains and redundancies, we also got a chance to pivot back to Don’s consuming love affair with his neighbor Sylvia. The Treehouse. Like a shoebox filled with valuable [...]
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