I had the pleasure of sitting down with Joe Trippi a week ago, as we both were in DC for the launch of Larry Lessig's new Change-Congress project. (Joe is working with Larry on CC, and the Sunlight Foundation, which I consult for, was co-sponsoring Larry's speech). If you watch closely, you can see Larry in the background of the first video, in fact. In general, the lack of production values suggests I should stick to my day job, I know. But we covered a lot of interesting ground, as you'll see...

I'm at the National Press Club for the launch of Stanford Prof. Larry Lessig's new project, Change-Congress.org. He's here as part of Sunshine Week, and his speech is co-sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation (which I consult for) as well as the Omidyar Network. As you may know, last year, Lessig decided to shift his focus from the fight for free culture to the fight for a clean government. Here are my notes on his talk, paraphrasing as best as I can...

A video tries to tie Barack Obama more closely to Jeremiah Wright and radical black politics; Fox News still needs to be schooled about who gets credit for writing community blogs; a new site is like Digg for the media bias set; Larry Lessig due to announce Change Congress later today; NetSquared runs a mashup contest; and combined views of Obama's big speech climb over 2,500,000 on YouTube.

Trippi warns about Obama's blue-collar support; Jerome Armstrong mocks Chris Bowers; will the "emerging church" go for Obama?; Lessig aims to Change-Congress; Blogger flophouses in DC make the front page; inside Obama's Texas field operation; Ron Paul says he's still running; and we add the VP field to our charts.

The PdF 2007 Conference hosted a spirited panel examining Andrew Keen's new book, The Cult of the Amateur, featuring Keen, Clay Shirky, Craig Newmark, and Robert Scoble, and hosted by PdF's Josh Levy. Larry Lessig has a response to Cult, and it's fair to say that he's not impressed.