Thursday night I had the great pleasure of introducing Larry Lessig who was getting an award from Eyebeam. Larry is the lawyer who LITERALLY has made it possible for us do OUTFOXED, WALMART and IRAQ FOR SALE. His advice, guidance, and support has been tremendous. He also happens to be one of the smartest and nicest guys, so to be able to thank him publicly was a joy.

I also learned about Eyebeam, which is an amazing sounding think tank/experimental home for artists, engineers and hackers! They pioneer open source creativity and Larry and Arianna were getting awards. Sadly, Arianna could not attend cause of continuing problems with her eye from her fall a while back. (She is fine, working like crazy, but couldn't fly)

Friday was PERSONAL DEMOCRACY FORUM, which our friends Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej founded. It is quite an amazing gathering of high-tech geeks, brains and political activists. I came, I saw, I listened, and I learned VOLUMES. Now this from someone who barely knew what a computer was until Jim Gilliam started educating me. But the level of brilliant innovative ideas, and the possibilities are quite something. The future is exploding faster then we can even think and adjust and change.

Larry Lessig did a presentation in the morning: a clear, articulate, and concise presentation of the need for open ideas, and free exchange of information and possibilities. He is not anti-copyright, he is just anti-suppressing ideas by large corporations for their gain. But he says it so wisely and eloquently.

And among many other speakers, Seth Godin, whose marketing books have been a great help to our thinking, gave a funny, witty and absolutely dead-on analysis of misuse of the email/internet.