It’s nearly the holiday season, and as CDM has just completed its fourth birthday, I want to give all of us a present. The idea: a holiday guide that’s a bit different.
- The first CDM treeware. We’ll have PDF and print-on demand versions. And part of the reason we’re doing this:
- Something you can share. CDM certainly has its share of (sometimes frighteningly) advanced readers. But we believe in what we’re doing enough to share it with people with less experience. So we’ll include content you can share with nieces, cousins, strangers on the street. And, of course, it’ll be Creative Commons-licensed.
- Gifts of knowledge as well as objects. You’ve seen the countless lists of “stuff to buy” in other holiday guides. But we believe in DIY tech, and that knowledge can be priceless. So we’ll include information from the best of CDM in 2008 and special guides for the occasion.
- Designed by you. This time, we want to know what you would want to receive, what you would give to newcomers, and what you would want to read. So we need your help – fill out the survey below and this will really be a grassroots effort by the CDM community.
It’s a really tough economy out there. But that’s all the more reason to invest in things that really matter, to look for value, and to look for things that can be shared freely with one another. So, in my mind, I could think of no better time to do this. Give the survey a go.
If you complete the survey, you’ll be entered in a drawing to receive another gift: a free copy of the new, cross-platform T-RackS 3 mastering and mixing suite donated by IK Multimedia. (We’ll have one other opportunity to put your name in the hat later this week, too.)
Fill out the survey below or head straight to:
http://cdm.holiday08.sgizmo.com
And watch for the guide by the beginning of December.
Advertisers: We need your support to help bring this guide to CDM readers free of charge. If you’ve got a message you’d like to get out and want to support our community, do get in touch. (We have some creative possibilities to offer, too.) Use the contact form or email ads (at) createdigitalmusic (dot) com.
What is treeware?
Treeware: content compatible with trees — i.e., can be printed on paper! 😉
Survey submitted. I hope it's of some use to you.
there were some hard questions in that survey. i hope i make a good grade.
It's on a curve.
I'm glad I made some of the questions hard — already about 150 responses to dig through, so otherwise this would have been pretty epic!
boom. pete, you rock! i think we oughtta all get together and make YOU something, ya philanthropic beeyastad.
I hope my response went through – the survey box just sorta disappeared afterwards – no confrimation "response submitted notice"…
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