1. My present intention is that we have no additional reading assignments for September 7. (We may, of course, spend some time with those we've not yet discussed from the first two sessions.)

Coming up with a topic, as you've discovered, is not simply a matter of jotting a few words on paper an hour before you have to hand it in. Those few words can represent hours of research, thought, analysis, consideration and rejection of options, editing and rephrasing.

Our primary purpose that afternoon will be to bring the best possible group thinking to everyone's selection of topics -- and their possible relationships to each other.

You will have handed them in the day before, and I will have had some time to look over whatever you present. However, we may well end up making make some modifications in your thinking, and mine, on the basis of Thursday's discussion.

You know to make your topic as precise and narrow as possible -- for your sake primarily, but also in an effort to make maximum possible contribution to the class and Web site.

You may want to include with what you turn in Wednesday whatever rationale, or preliminary research (summary references, not machine copies of documents), or outlines, you have at that time. (This is not a requirement, but it can help me to help you in coming up with something that will be fun as well as worthwhile for you.)

2. The "Report of August 24, 2000 Seminar Session" handed out in hard copy August 31 is also available as a link off of our main class Web page: http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/elp00/ It contains a copy of the PowerPoint presentation (outline format) about "mileposts" and deadlines e-mailed to you earlier.

3. There will be (it's not yet there) some comparable notes about our session August 31.

4. Some of you have asked about the site to download the free project manager software. The site I first used was http://www.freewarehome.com In its "Business Forum" I clicked on "Date, Time Management." On that page I clicked on "Schedulers," and then scrolled down to "Power Planner." Clicking on "Power Planner" takes you to http://www.sphygmic.com/pplan.htm (I mention all the preliminary steps because there may be other things along the way you might find of interest.) From there you can use either the "Click on this" or the "ftp://ftp.agoron.com/vendor/sphygmic" links. Because to speed transfer it comes as a compressed "zip" file you will need some "unzip" program to get it to the stage where you can run the "setup" file (e.g., pkunzip, or Winzip). At that point it's installed like any other program.

Nick