1. What I Got Done

• Second Manifesto on Text Liberation: A Preliminary Thesis Abstract

2. What I Am Going to Do

• Talk to Nat Bennett about writing a specific text for a given place.

• Track down Larry's friend who makes books to talk about how I might go about printing and building a "liberated book".

• Investigate perforations, gum paper, pricing guns, label printers.

• Write the third manifesto and ask Doug Rushkoff for feedback.

• Whip up a quick Perl script that scans text to guess at possible locations in which that text might live.

• Continue to tackle my reading list.

3. Unexpected Problems; Outstanding Risk

• I'm still a bit worried that I'm still stuck in the theoretical stage. Clay says not to build anything, but if I am to do anything significant I don't want to worry about running out of time.

• Not sure that I'll ever be able to hack pricing guns to print words.

• The problem I'm tackling -- to get things off the screen without a screen -- might be impossible. Also, I worry that the work I end up doing may have a minimal or nonexistent technical element.

4. Insights / Surprises

• The word "screen" actually implies the sense of blocking; of keeping things separate or apart.

• Text has a symbiotic relationship with place: words bring meaning to locations, locations bring meaning to words.