the presidential blogathon continues

Posted on August 7, 2003 by Lessig

Next week I’ll be working offline to finish a book (“Free Culture”) before my wife finishes carrying our kid. (And on that subject, check out this). But the blog will continue with Congressman, and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Congressman Kucinich has had a blog for a while (made free under a Creative Commons license). I’m happy to welcome him to this space starting Monday. More on this before then.

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19 Responses to the presidential blogathon continues

  1. david says:
    August 7, 2003 at 2:29 pm

    Since Kucinich is a congressman today, this may be a chance to push the introduction of saner copyright laws — even before the election next year.

  2. Nancy says:
    August 7, 2003 at 3:31 pm

    Yay!! We look forward to hearing what Kucinich has to offer!

  3. Rick says:
    August 7, 2003 at 4:20 pm

    Excellent. Kucinich is a refreshingly sane politician. I look forward to this.

  4. Anonymous says:
    August 7, 2003 at 4:34 pm

    Excellent. Kucinich is a refreshingly sane politician.

    Umm…was that tounge-in-cheek? Didn’t he propose a bill banning space-based mind control devices last year?

  5. adamsj says:
    August 7, 2003 at 6:39 pm

    What–you’re in favor of space-based mind control devices?

    You just can’t please some people–or, as Honest Abe once put it:

    You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, unless you use space-based mind control devices such as Fox News to shatter their psyches en masse.

  6. Drew says:
    August 7, 2003 at 6:39 pm

    Is every Democratic presidential candidate going to get exposure on your blog? I would prefer a guest blogger that is not so political and has a genuine interest in “the future of ideas” and something to say about it.

    Howard Dean’s posts were some of the most trite and disinteresting posts that I’ve read. Most people who reported on Howard Dean’s blogging in both Slashdot and other media wrote more text just describing what could happen then he ever bothered to post.

    And one of the most key parts of any blog, which is posting links to websites was completely ignored by Dean. There were a grand total of 0 web links offered by Dean (discounting those not self-advertising Dean political campaign).

  7. Critt says:
    August 7, 2003 at 9:44 pm

    Hmmm… Dennis could choose to blog about how we can bring “the future of ideas” into the present. Or, perhaps, he could choose to talk about baseball.

    Baseball, you ask? Yes, baseball. You see, Election 2004 is the World Series played in one day. As all baseball fans know, weaker teams beat stronger teams when the underdog folks sucessfully match their strengths against the reigning team’s weaknesses. And every weakness in the George Bush team is a strength in Dennis Kucinich team.

    Personallly, since Carl Rove already knows how Dennis Kucinich can beat George Bush, I’d like to see if we – Dennis and the bloggers who choose to participate – could bring a level of discourse that helps each of us better understand the formidable challenges at hand, and how we might get better at bringing more voices into the circle of conversation.

    One thing I’m sure of, there won’t be a shortage of savvy and lovable people showing up this week 😛

  8. Anonymous says:
    August 8, 2003 at 2:45 am

    I sure hope he has something to offer *this* blog. I don’t see the
    point in another mirror of a blog that doesn’t have any content
    for people interested in copyright issues (a repeat of Dean).

  9. Critt says:
    August 8, 2003 at 5:30 am

    Copyright issues, eh? This site, Copyright Website, seems to cover it all. They seem to be especially concerned

    about why you should officially register your works. On the other hand, maybe there’s an uneasiness to

    issues of copyright – like those brought to attention at Copyfight – that have a resonating connection to other

    issues?

    I don’t believe there’s any subject we can hope to be “single-issue”; there’s always interconnection. I do expect focus. However, I don’t expect any forum to be

    “single-issue”. And, forums – conversations – can be more fun when they’re interconnected, end-to-end. Maybe that’s part of the copyright issue…

  10. Eric Brunner-Williams says:
    August 8, 2003 at 5:38 am

    I intend to ask the same two questions, the first on indigenous intellectual property, the second on controlling jurisdiction.

  11. Graham says:
    August 8, 2003 at 7:01 am

    Finally. A candidate that supports an actual universal health care system! Imagine that! Health care for everyone! How communist!

  12. Thumppfc says:
    August 9, 2003 at 6:37 pm

    I got the chance to see Dennis at a convention in Washington called “Take Back America” featuring several presidential candidates. He so moved the audience, that the next speaker, Dick Gephart, postponed his speach. He is a strong fighter against FCC deregulation. He testifies to WTO and NAFTA bad practices resulting in jobs moving out of the U.S. And he has a health care system that takes the HUGE profit making machine out of the equation and is really worth hearing. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

  13. Eric Brunner-Williams says:
    August 9, 2003 at 8:36 pm

    The medium is writing, not speaking. I mention as this is an issue for one campaign I’ve contacted. Not every speaker is a writer.

  14. Critt says:
    August 10, 2003 at 8:17 am

    For those choosing to hear what other people are thinking – and can do a little reading – mediachannel.org provides an issue guides page. For me, I especially like Media Concentration and U.S. Media Politics.

  16. Dee says:
    August 10, 2003 at 11:28 am

    I’ve found Congressman Kucinich to be equally adept at both speaking and writing. He has his own Blog for the campaign issues, this is a chance to expand on his views about indivdual and civil rights.

    I didn’t even know about this blog until someone passed on the link with the information that Rep. Kucinich would be guest blogging. Now that I’m here I think I’ll be doing a lot of exploring. The Law and Congressman Kucinich, perfect combination for me.

  17. Dee says:
    August 10, 2003 at 11:31 am

    Oh, and the mind control devices, yes he did vote for that ban, after learning research and technology along those lines was already in development. The technology is already within reach and, considering the people currently in positions of power along with their recent enough actions, I’m not in the least surprised they might consider using it.

  18. Patrick Michaels says:
    August 10, 2003 at 8:39 pm

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  19. Eric Brunner-Williams says:
    August 11, 2003 at 5:37 am

    I missed this but someone wrote:
    Didn�t he propose a bill banning space-based mind control devices last year?

    I just read HR 2977 (107th Congress, link below curtesy of the Federation of American Scientiests), and the text reasonably references technical means known to persons familiar with the open technical literature, e.g., Jane’s, and Aviation Week & Space Technology, several of which have no prior use histories to cite, all of which are in the exotic weapons enumerated list — Section 7, subsection (b), items (i) – (vii). None of these really roll off the tongue, except perhaps “laser weapons”.

    For what it is worth here in the comments area of an IPR blog, Reuters reported in early February that US planners were considering first-use of an energy weapon (high power microwaves) in the Iraq invasion. The Directed Energy Directorate can be found at http://www.de.afrl.af.mil.

    One could ridicule a public figure who opposes “dropping microwave ovens and toasters on Bagdad”, to good political effect. Let’s not play that game.

    Text of HR 2977: http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2001/hr2977.html

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