discuss: Business card CD-Rs
Subject:
Re: Business card CD-Rs
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
20 Mar 2001 15:57:50 -0000
Message-Id: <10103201050.ZM3177@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Mar 20, 10:24am, Dan York wrote:
> Subject: Re: Business card CD-Rs
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:45:28PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> > I have a good thought about giveaways for the LDP at booths.
> > Why not build up a bunch of those tiny credit-card sized CD-Rs
> > with PDFs and HTML of the LDP documents?
>
> I'll throw in my 2 cents that this is a very cool idea... and we ought
> to be able to find a sponsor who would be willing to fund this!
> I mean... there are enough publishers and such out there who might
> be very interested in putting there name on a CD we put out.
>
> As to the "regular" vs. "business-card" size issue... the business
> card CDs have just so much more of a *cool* factor - which is
> precisely why people will pick them up. (And exactly the kind of thing
> you want in a marketing giveaway.)
I agree. I really like this idea. How much data do they hold,
relative to a "regular" CD (650+ meg)...I'm seeing 5 - 260 meg for
various shaped CDs - http://www.cdrom4u.com/shapedcd.htm
Some quick specs...If we included:
230 meg - LDP site (HTML HOWTOs, Guides, FAQs, web pages, etc.)
65 meg - PDFs (HOWTOs)
25 meg - plain text (HOWTOs)
The total size (estimated) would be ~320 meg.
I could put together a "CD version" of the site (which would
include relative links to the PDF and plain text variants) without
too much effort..
r,
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Ferg
