Jonathan Zittrain

 After weighing the possibilities, he will focus on Change Congress.

The page on ActBlue to draft him has been converted into a straight candidate support page.  And lessig08.org is registered, so far pointing to a blank.
Update: lessig08.org is live:
I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so [...]

Wikileaks is a set of strategically placed wikis around the world.  It’s designed to accept leaked documents, generally from anonymous dissidents around the world, and to get them into circulation.
A Cayman Island bank and its Swiss parent company filed for an emergency restraining order in a California court asking the registrar for wikileaks.org to change its [...]

I’m trying to work through some of the recent criticisms of Barack Obama. Some seem contradictory.
One is that he is too liberal, at least to appeal to moderates. It’s pointed out that the National Journal rated him the “most liberal” Senator for 2007. On the other hand, he is said to be too compromising. The [...]

… the Facebook group tops 1,000 people in 24 hours, and there are four badges to choose from at the newly-appeared Draft Lessig website, complete with trademark P22 typewriter font.

Seems increasingly likely.  From NSI WHOIS, change-congress.com is registered:

AboutUs: CHANGE-CONGRESS.COM

  
LESSIG, LAWRENCE **

  
Stanford, CA 94305

  
US

  
Domain Name: CHANGE-CONGRESS.COM

  
Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
 

  
LESSIG, LAWRENCE **

  
Stanford, CA 94305

  
US

  
Phone:

  
Fax: 123 123 1234

  
Record expires on 11-Jan-2009

  
Record created on 11-Jan-2008

  
Database last updated on 11-Jan-2008

  
Domain servers in listed order:
Manage DNS

  
NS19.WORLDNIC.COM   
205.178.190.10
 

  
NS20.WORLDNIC.COM   
205.178.189.10
 

  
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I don’t think he’s [...]

My OS X machine has had Office 2004 on it since, well, about 2004.  Nearly four years later I’m alerted to an update from its auto-updater:
This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. This update also contains an improvement that enhances the stability [...]

Enterprising UVa senior Adrienne Felt has developed an intriguing argument about privacy for Web 2.0 apps like those on the Facebook development platform.  It will get lots of news coverage, much of it boiling down to reports that don’t capture the richness of the problem.  Here’s how Felt puts it:
When Jane installs a Facebook application, the [...]

Alex Curtis of Public Knowledge attended a panel about Internet filters at the DC “State of the Net” conference. He’s placed part of the session on YouTube in which RIAA president and former general counsel Cary Sherman conceded that trying to filter out unauthorized copyrighted material at the network level could be difficult. But the network isn’t the [...]

Last week a federal appellate court upheld a judgment against EchoStar in a patent case brought by TiVo. I think this case is fascinating, and open a chapter of FOI with it:
TiVo introduced the first digital video recorder (DVR) in 1998. It allowed  consumers to record and time-shift TV shows. After withstanding several claims that [...]