1. How much time do you spend at Mudcat in an average week?
       Probably 6 - 10 hours.

2. What time of day (within your own time zone) does this generally occur? ?
       Could be almost any time.

3. What time is it now, in your time zone??
       Roughly 7:15 PM

4. Are you usually at home or at work when visiting? ?
       Yes!

5. Are you usually multi-tasking when you visit? ?
       Only if I'm at work.

6. Aside from the music community, what do you enjoy about Mudcat's structure, design, and features? ?
       Max has done an outstanding job of choosing the right mix of features and navigational widgets to make the Mudcat site easy to use. There is much here that I would change but my suggestions have already been posted in the appropriate threads.

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Having said all that, I personally feel that Mudcat is undervalued by even it's most devoted users. I can't help but feel that there is grant money available to maintain Mudcat and the Digital Tradition and help it to become even more than it has been. Funding sources in the U.S. might include the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), The Smithsonian Institution, The Library of Congress or one of the major universities with strong folk music departments. Who knows? maybe the U.N. has money considering the international nature of the site. The cost of maintaing Mudcat may be a lot for a small business to handle but in the larger world sense it's very innexpensive to maintain. A quarter million a year or so is a mere pittance to the big funding organizations.

The right sort of pitch would have to be put together but there seem to be enough experienced intellectuals hanging about here to get the job done.

      - Mark