Change Congress
Lessig Launches Change-Congress.org
Micah L. Sifry, 03/20/2008 - 3:07pm

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...

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Daily Digest: Waiting to Change Congress
Joshua Levy, 03/20/2008 - 10:03am

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.

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