To untangle the "purpose" or "scope" question, Music Thoughts Only vs. Music with Madcap Mudcat Mutterings, Uncut"


What could resolve this either/or question would be to take the old and/and approach.

The people who live in the graphic arts world save the day in such instances--- think VISUAL. There is one type face for the body of the book (the Music for Music's Sake material) and another type style for the running Mudchat that weaves around the pages in little shaded streams over the edges and through the words (to grandmother's... no)

Sorry I am not myself a graphic designer but such problems can easily be seen in their resolutiuon by looking at any contemporary textbook. Amos, look at one of Barky's-- I think you'll find the problem is gone. Type style, boxes, bullets, all at our disposal. See also how online encyclo's are set up.

But beware of trying to transfer from one medium to another, intact. Por ejemplo, I was with a company that sells BILLIONS of blank audio cassettes to churches. The churches use the cassettes to record and distribute sermons, music, etc. The company decided to open a department to persuade train churches to build their own cassette ministry, to use cassettes for outreach, the whole deal. But they tried to market these ministry-development materials through a printed catalog and made a lovely printed book full of ideas and success stories "from real churches!"

The ONE item that worked best to spread the passion for cassette ministry was... cassettesa about casette ministry. It took them 3 years of painful R&D to see this. One 60-minute tape could replace all the print stuff, because the tape itself delivered the most powerful message: Tapes Work. (Thank you Mr. McLuhan, we'll try not to forget you in this new K!)

So it may turn out that a lot of work results in... another set of 'Cat links, or another 'Cat museum like the blues one... no profit, more tech to suppoort to hang the site.

So much of what makes the 'Cat worth talking about is the online event of it. So I think the closest is the CD-ROM, and there again we go to the visual world. Web-type design skills will be just as necessary as editorial skills.