Lawrence Lessig's last "Free Culture" presentation
March 03, 2008
Yes, I have pointed to presentations by Stanford professor Larry Lessig many times before. And here is yet another. Below is Lessig's last presentation that he plans to ever give on "Free Culture." He gave this talk January 31, 2008 at Stanford University. Watch the video from Open Source Cinema.
Many lines from Professor Lessig's talk stood out to me. Here's one of them from early in the talk.
Communication — especially when you're trying to change things in a big way — is certainly not only about preparation and delivery, it's also about strategy. This line by Lessig reminds me that we have to be clear, structured, and logical, but we also have to be talking to the right people (and at the right time). The best argument in the world is for naught if we're targeting the wrong audience (or if we have the right audience but are not speaking — really speaking — to them.)"The problems we are attacking are often problems that aren't really constitutional problems, they're political problems. They're problems about an understanding. And it's the understanding not of... seven justices on the Supreme Court, it's the understanding of ordinary people. There's not enough that we do to frame these issues in terms that ordinary people can get. And in the end that is our biggest weakness: We're great at framing the issue in a way that a Supreme Court brief understands, but awful at framing the issue in a way that makes it understandable to the public."
— Lawrence Lessig
On the "Lessig Method"

Another Lessig slide presentation in Keynote
Also, watch this short Keynote slide presentation by Professor Lessig. This demonstrates how easy it is for someone to make a presentation with slides in sync with their narration and upload it to the net. The tool is very simple. (Link to the video on Lessig's blog).
I was excited about your comment that it is easy to make a narrated presentation with Keynote. Do you know if there is anything comparable for Powerpoint?
Posted by: Grue | March 03, 2008 at 10:21 PM
"This demonstrates how easy it is for someone to make a presentation with slides in sync with their narration and upload it to the net. The tool is very simple."
Is Keynote the tool, or is another program required to complete the sync?
Posted by: khougham | March 03, 2008 at 11:12 PM
>Is Keynote the tool, or is another program required to complete the sync?
You can do it right in Keynote. I demoed it here last summer in a test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfak63X4BN0
Posted by: Garr | March 04, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Profcast is a tool designed to record narration for PowerPoint and/or Keynote. Mac OS only, however.
Posted by: Mark | March 04, 2008 at 07:28 AM
Thanks for information
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Posted by: Jason | March 06, 2008 at 10:03 AM
>Is Keynote the tool, or is another program required to complete the sync?
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