| From: Andreas Ramos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Re: WC:>: Beyond Business Cards
| Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 11:25 AM
|
| There's an easy way to see how much space one has left on a CD.
|
| On many CDs, you can hold it up to the light and tilt it so that you can
see
| a darker band at the beginning. This is the data. Since CDs hold about
640
| MB, if the band is only 1/3rd of the disk, then there's more than 200 MB
of
| space left.
|
| This works with some CDs, but not with others.
|
| Anyway, the idea of CD business cards is quite clever. Yes, one could
hand
| out CDs themselves, but you don't really carry CDs around with you. But a
| handful of CD business cards is feasible. It would seem to be the next
big
| hit at tradeshows.
It sounds like a great idea... hrm... it might be "cute", but it certainly
would attract attention... isn't a business card all about marketing?
Imagine... the logo, the name, the phone, the e-mail, the company domain
of a business card in text... with enough room to hold PDF's of brochures,
many many full fledged web sites, graphics included, a possible resume...
I can picture it... envelopes matching the "business card", with a white
Alice & Wonderland note containing just two words: "Open me"
... and of course another small business card with the same font on the
envelope and the "Open Me" letter: "Operating Instructions" with redundant
operating instructions somewhere on the back of the CD biz card...
First I would need to design a site I am actually proud of... Dammit! That
is my problem. I can visualize images, but when the time comes to actually
draw the image, it is like I am using a sledgehammer to shape a block of
wood. After I graduate with my BSCS in January, I need to take a design
class along with the Web Development Certifications I wanted to start...
though the Advanced Certificate of Software Engineering at Brandeis
University looks mighty tasty, along with their "Intranet/Internet" course
and "Software Testing" class. Their print brochure is splendid, though when
I look at their web site
<http://www.brandeis.edu/sumsch/conted/seframe.html> with its
incompleteness and its faded background at first caused me to lose my
appetite. If they only aped the nice layout of the print brochure... Heh! I
could scan in this brochure with my scanner and my OCR, design a mock up,
and write to them saying "I'll sell you this for two classes, in the
Spring!" ;} ... Nah....
-T.J. Maher
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