{"id":820,"date":"2008-02-05T00:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T04:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/02\/05\/lessig-4obama-transcription\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T01:08:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:08:28","slug":"lessig-4obama-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/02\/05\/lessig-4obama-transcription\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessig &#8216;4Obama&#8217; transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First things first.  I&#8217;m no no-holds-barred <strong>Obaman<\/strong> like Larry Lessig.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like Boyish Orator&#8217;s style, and give him a leg up over Her Royal Cleverness, but don&#8217;t stay up nights worrying about the future difference to world peace their differential election would make (other things keep me up, even in politics), and not because I don&#8217;t think peace a devastatingly important realm for immediate <strong>change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, Lessig <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html\">taped a Barackish paean<\/a>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/printf.net\">Ball<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/madprime.org\"><em>Prime<\/em><\/a> started simulscribing in <strong>gobby<\/strong>. Gobby sessions exert a gravitational pull on me and soon I was transcribing myself, to exercise day-cramped hands &#8212; though I would never have listened to the piece otherwise.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.printf.net\/articles\/2008\/02\/05\/transcript-of-lawrence-lessig-obama-video\"><em>read the result<\/em><\/a> of our labours.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of making a set of ideas more accessible and revisitable is an infinitely better reason to divest oneself of twenty minutes of life than amusement or boredom&#8230; Which makes me wonder why we don&#8217;t see <a href=\"http:\/\/dotsub.com\/search\/?searchtokens=olpc\"><strong>dotsub<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dotsub.com\/search\/?searchtokens=olpc\">everywhere<\/a>, at least among the sj crowd of one.  Maybe it just needs a <a href=\"http:\/\/gobby.0x539.de\/trac\/\">gobby<\/a> <strong>plugin<\/strong>, or a way to find two friends and start transcribing in tandem.  I&#8217;m even feeling the itch to ride a tandem bike or <strong>sidecar<\/strong>.   Ach.  Time for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandblog.net\/index.php\/2007\/04\/26\/seaweed-bath-enniscrone-kilcullen\/\">seaweed shower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First things first. I&#8217;m no no-holds-barred Obaman like Larry Lessig. 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