From Doug Rushkoff:

• "This is great stuff. You may want to look at how notions of "parallel play" fit into that, too. Parallel play is the kind of play kids do before they know how to actually play WITH each other. And the blogger universe seems particularly vulnerable to this."

From Clay Shirky:

• Me: To this point, the Internet Age has focused on the aggregation of text, rather than its dissemination.

  Clay: "This overstates the case, of course, as is de rigeur for a manifesto, but be careful not to base too much on it -- mailing lists, usenet, gopher, all of those were tools purpose-built for dissemination (usenet, in fact, was designed to force lessaggregation onto participants.I think your point about the word hoard being largely removed from the world is right, but be sure to concentrate on doing something interesting and new, rather than just solving some untouched problem, since it actually has been touched in other ways.)"

• Me: The vast repositories of accumulated wisdom we are starting to take for granted live not in the real world – our everyday world – but segregated behind screens, microscopically inscribed (stored might be a better phrase -- microscopic inscribing is the homunculus of microfiche -- disk sectors have no analog to real-world inscription) ...

  Clay: "Stored might be a better phrase -- microscopic inscribing is the homunculus of microfiche -- disk sectors have no analog to real-world inscription."

• Me: Think, for a minute, of the word “screen”. In its classical sense, a screen was a shield, a mechanism for blocking, a way to protect two things from interacting.

  Clay: "Or for letting some things through while stopping others."

• Me: I am most concerned with the physical manifestation of text, specifically digital text, because I believe that screens are an imperfect and limiting way in which to publish the written word.

  Clay: "I think this should be the first sentence of this paper."

• Me: As such, digital libraries echo the traditional limitations of print libraries. They still require a certain level of intellectual expertise; they still must be “visited”; and the treasures that lie within can only be removed with some difficulty.

  Clay: "Is this, in your view, mainly a result of technology or law?"

• Me: And yet the most compelling examples of written text in public spaces – from engraved inscriptions on public buildings to protest graffiti on the Berlin Wall – are at heart community-minded documents, capturing the same sense of shared discourse that characterizes oral conversation.

  Clay: "I wonder where tshirts and tattoos fit -- public broadcast by private individuals…"

• Me: We are familiar with words annotating other words (footnotes, scrawling in the margins, ...

  Clay: "This suggests communal annotation -- nis that part of your goal here, or just one example?"