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August 2008: I'm upgrading the data in taoslink.com. All dead Taos links are being removed. Only active links will remain.
Many are being sorted. Listings for sites that have changed URLs since the last taoslink.com update, over a year ago, are being re-linked.
This is like running a comb through all the Web sites of Taos. Check and double check. An interesting process. |
This work with taoslink.com now is also like cleaning out your shed or storage locker. I haven't done any work on the taoslink.com site for quite a while but the site just keeps humming along turning people on to Taos and the real people and real things and a real Taos vibe with real Taos information.
I'm really finding some gems for sites now. So many taos online sites have 'gotten the message' about excellence over the past 10-13 years of Taos on the web. There are a lot of really crumby Web efforts made by many people and organizations, too. I have had to delete lots of dead sites.
And there are a lot of good URLs that are 'gone' - like of no benefit at all right now, because their 'owners' just let them (and their traffic) go to organizations that have sites that have no more content than being packed with sponsored listing like google and yahoo ads and a couple of keywords and nothing more. Don't even go there.
But whatever..., the main thing is that this taoslink.com database is really refining out very nicely as an online portal to real Taos sites. Taos sites are almost always good sites about interesting and worthwhile topics with a whole other vibe than all those sites 'out there'.
No Web site stands alone. It is in a Web. Web means you're wired in. Whether you choose to see it and understand it, Taos on the Web actually is a community - a community of Web sites that mean Taos in the minds of Web surfers. It's rather large and our surfers are a bit different than mainstream Web surfers. You can see it all here on taoslink.com, as I have.
When in town, people like to browse (walk / stroll) from Michael McCormick's Gallery to Graham's Grille or Doc Martin's then maybe walk over to the Harwood past all the shops on the plaza. The taoslink.com site is the easiest way for your customers to do that. Actually, it's Very Easy to get a real overview of what Taos has to offer through taoslink.com. With this new technology it will only get better. You'll love the new taoslink.com site thumbnails that appear when you slide your mouse over the site's address.
The first version (1.0) was static. The second (2.0), I made with a guy in Russia named Algis, while I was in Taos in '04. This version of taoslink.com (3.0) is being made while I'm in New Delhi and I'm working online with a guy named Nikita who's in Kyrgystan. This is all so that we in Taos can have this taoslink.com engine that drives traffic..., constantly, 24/7 365 to some good, well established and actually very groovey Taos-based Web sites.
But right now Nikita is doing a big rewiring job on taoslink.com and I'm sorting through a lot of the old residue of Taos on the Web and, like I said, finding a lot of gems. Yeah, cleaning out garbage, too, and putting this site all in really good order.
Best Regards,
J. R. Ransom
