Walking the walk behind much of his talk, Lessig drops a remix of a remix of his “Change Congress” remix at Web 2.0 Summit 2008.
For a few days last week, trawling for media-related change revelations made me feel like a stalker in deep space, harassing radiation, spying on gases, and making midnight breather calls to interstellar dust just to keep my A-game intact. What could be better? Even the wait itself offered little in the way of agony. Pacing around my living room like a caged wolverine is infinitely more fun than, say, watching TV, waxing a car, or playing Madden knee-deep in hot pocket wrappers. I might even end up missing it…soon. Between queuing up responses to far more urgent issues, O‘s been putting all kinds of appointment balls in motion. On November 14, Change.gov announced the Obama-Biden Transition Project’s Science, Tech, Space, and Arts Team Leads. For the FCC, our Pres-elect tapped two of the best minds in their field. Let’s meet one.
Like fellow Team Lead Kevin Werbach, Susan Crawford has long championed a free and open Internet. She’s also hot on getting our speeds up to snuff.
Formerly a partner at law firm Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering (now WilmerHale) and member of the Board of Directors for ICANN, One WebDay founder Professor Susan Crawford teaches communications law and internet law at the University of Michigan, blogs like a deity, and digs Second Life. She also understands networks and their potential better than any entity short of a galactic civilization.
Crawford rocks Rocketboom
Wired called Kevin Werbach “one of the few policy wonks who really got it” long before he reached his current level of expertise…or helped start two guilds in World of Warcraft.
Former FCC Counsel for New Technology Policy and editor of Release 1.0, Supernova Group founder Kevin Werbach is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. and one of the first people major technology and communications companies go to for advice on the business, social, and policy implications of emerging technologies. Like Crawford, he harbors a vast trove of network-related knowledge and blogs magnificently. Werbach knows Lessig and his work well–and vice versa–to the extent that during a 2006 Second Life in-world talk co-hosted by SL founder Philip Linden and LL, Werbach (as or through Neptune Rebel) greeted Lessig through a panelist and asked about his views on fair use and parody. Before answering the question, Lessig observed that he’d stolen every great idea Werbach had and turned it into a book, with many not yet written.
Smoother than Ne-Yo, Werbach unpacks the Supernova Conference he founded eight years ago.
