I'm homebrewing some business cards right now.  Doing a lot of networking, need something to hand out.  It's difficult of course, creating business cards with no company and no title when one of my old Berkman jobs, sort of a vestige of the beginning of my tenure there, was to order stationery and business cards for the department.  Annoying, considering the rate at which we added and shuffled, but after a few years, I formed a relationship with the guy in publications so I didn't have to tiptoe anymore and I could just say what I needed and I'd get it.

So I cooked up a few different types - some with full address, some with a few functional keywords, some with a catchy slogan.  I figure variety is the spice of life.

But really all I can think about is my old cards from the dot-com days, from HighWired (in a mixed-blessing move, I left the company two weeks before the big layoff mentioned in the article, which actually took place in December of 2000).  The back was purple, with a lot of text.  Our colors were yellow and purple, so branding-wise it made sense.  But don't people hand out business cards so others can remember meeting them?  Why, then, would a company make it near to impossible for anyone to make any notes on the back?  Royal purple doesn't allow for much, never mind bullet points!

Anyhow, my nice DIY ones are ivory - and Avery, for that matter - and the back is fully blank.  Notes may abound.

I hope.