Not sure if it has academic value, but it sure makes me laugh!
Actually I don’t know of a public figure that has been as public (if you can call anything Colbert’s character does as “public”) about remixing his creative content. The possibilities of the peer to peer revolution are apparent when we talk about creative/artistic content, but the prospects for political content are harder (not impossible) to find. They do exist (go to the Sunlight Foundation’s page for some good examples). But these projects need mainstream vehicles to promote their existence.
I hope that in the coming months we see some creative (and public) remixing of Obama’s creative commons content. Annotating the material on WhiteHouse.gov and the newly created recovery.gov with annotation tools like Diigo or a mashup of where stimulis money is going using Google Maps might provide some useful results.
BTW….speaking of here is an interesting slideshow tracing the evolution of WhiteHouse.gov. HT: James DeHaan