[Coco] CoCo Quick Reference - CoCopedia

[Bill Pierce]

Allen,
I like the idea of a banner sharing system. The old "webring" concept has become nothing more tha an ad spam with a few links that are ridiculous to access the actual page. I would be glad to set up a page on my site and I know Guillaume Major would ley me set on up on the Color Computer Archives.
Let's get together and come up with a templet for the page and see if it flies.
Anyone else with a site interested?

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 1:43 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Quick Reference - CoCopedia


On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> That would be what is usually called an FAQ.  If I saw a link to
> something called "CoCo_Quick_Reference" I would think it was
> probably one of those little pocket cards with all the commands
> on it.

I was noticing this as I was typing up that page. But the difference is, my 
intent was a place someone who did a Google could find that would tell them 
where CoCo stuff was happening -- rather than a larger traditional FAQ. I guess 
we just need to define the types of CoCo folks that are out of the loop and what 
they would be looking for.

Does anyone out there have a CoCo Wordpress or other blog that has statistics? I 
would be curious to see how people are finding your site. On my 
www.appleause.com site where I write about Apple, Arduino, Halloween projectors, 
etc., I have been amazed at the daily hits I get from people looking up how to 
unstick an old 1998 Furby! When I discover something, I just post it there so it 
can be found. I see hits for FireWire-SATA and various other pages I made.

Someone with a CoCo blog might be able to give us some good insight on what "the 
other folks" are looking for when they look for CoCo.

And I think it might be time to start something like the old web rings and 
banner exchanges. But, instead of rotating sites and ads, it would be a common 
thing every CoCo page could put on their site, linking to one summary page 
somewhere of what was going on. I could see a page with current news (CoCoFest, 
new product announcements) following by links to major points of interest in our 
community.

I am just a bit surprised at how easy it is for me to find some obscure stuff 
when I look it up, but how difficult it is to find CoCo related things.

		-- Allen

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