Zittrain's iLaw "riff"

never mind what he's saying (which is funny and poignant and  is being instantaneously blogged here) -- the best part about the lecture is the ribbing of zittrain by palfrey, who controls the browser screen projected on either side of zittrain's lecture slides....

at one point, zittrain mentioned the insane success of wikipedia and palfrey put up zittrain's page on wikipedia. next, when zittrain mentioned his book, Internet Law, palfrey put up the amazon page of said book, which then prompted zittrain to go after lawrence lessig, saying something to the effect of, "i'd like to get the next book out, by some of my colleagues, ahem, haven't gotten their chapters in on time...." as he walked over to where lessig was sitting.

and again, zittrain -- talking about viruses --  meanders to lessig as he says, "even smug mac users are vulnerable to virus attacks" and lessig -- who lovingly refers to zittrain as "z"  and his lecture as "zTheory" -- shrugged his shoulders and holds his hands palms up. 

palfrey also put up his own blog on the screens, and as zittrain looked behind him he said, "my god, is this being blogged already?"

the first iLaw lecture is hilarious, and of course, super smart.

zittrain got revenge on on palfrey by making him search for mcgruff the crime dog 

and "dogged" him for not being able to find an obscure reference he made to "the jerk" (which i will now attempt to find)

something like "the yellow pages are here..."

update: movie quote is, "The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to me now."

now i have to ask zittrain why he brought that up....i was too busy laughing to pay attention. i bet you never thought that could happen at a harvard law school conference

update: according to zittrain "it's a great metaphor for the the blogosphere -- no longer waiting for the phone book to recognize us, we're recognizing ourselves!"

 

Comments

[Herkko Hietanen]

Great post.

I am blogging the event too at http://hietanen.typepad.com/copyfraud/.

I am trying to collect every live blogger. Let me know if there are other people blogging too.

[Diego Sanchez]

Saludos desde Sudamerica

Me parece excente el blog.

Felicitaciones

Diego