Community Color News

Connecting communities in the Mountain West.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Link Development v. Search Engine Optimization

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I've engaged in several conversations about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on social media platform called Hive . I made a few negat...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Milieu Control

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The term "Milieu Control" refers to the practice of controlling people by controlling the sources that they can read. In the video...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Lets Encrypt

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Industry pundits advocate use of encryption. Unfortunately the certificates broke the budget of most web sites. I attempted to maintain SSL ...
Thursday, October 04, 2018

Business Problems Require Business Solutions

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The world's population is 7.4 billion people. Feeding, housing and providing health care for these people is a business problem. Busin...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Your Personal Web Site Should be the Center of Your Online Life

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I've been playing on the site SteemIt.com . The site is interesting in that it has a built in mechanism for rewarding users of the site....
Thursday, August 16, 2018

A Partisan Press is a Danger to Democracy

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The American Press has become increasingly partisan through the years. In a partisan press, reporters pass each of their stories through...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

A podcast and steem

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I decided to start blogging again. I just started a podcast using podbean and a Steem It account. I am eager to see how the Steem paymen...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Dichotomous Thinking Rips Communities Apart

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A Youtuber using the name "FlackerMan" put up an interesting video about foundational dichotomies in Mormonism. The video was de...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Wikipedia Does Not Do a Good Job Covering Corporate History

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I like to use Wikipedia to learn about the things I come across in life. For example, there are strip malls that have the title "Furnit...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

Examining Grifol's

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As mention in the last post: I am examining acquisition chains . I noticed an ad at a local University soliciting "plasma donations...

Examining acquisition chains

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It broke my heart. Most of the small businesses that I've worked with over the years have failed. Something is happening in our economy ...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Small Business Saturday Report

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Small Business Saturday is a marketing gimmick created by American Express (big finance) in an effort to sell card processing services to s...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

A Day Wasted on FTC Compliance

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Oops, I just discovered a problem. I told blogger to use ssl for this. I can't afford an SSL certificate for my site; So I can't pos...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Never Shop At a Store that Uses Domain Privacy

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I was reading through the "Terms and Conditions" page of a web site that I was considering promoting. Line 15 of the terms read: ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Outdenting the Listings

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I am a big fan of using defaults. The original concept behind the web was that people would customize their browsers to the font and font ...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Reviving the Community Color Project

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In this last year, I've been investing my efforts in a fool-hearty attempt to revive the Community Color project. This project exami...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Updated About Page and fixing broken links

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Maintaining a web directory is time consuming enterprise and has little reward. Anyway, I just updated the about page for Community Color . ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

DMOZ Died

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I logged into DMOZ.org yesterday and was sad to see that Mozilla's "Open Directory Project" had finally failed. DMOZ was a r...
Friday, August 11, 2017

New Home Computer

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I finally faced up to the fact that the last computer I purchased did not have enough power to do complex tasks like edit photos, open sprea...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

Porting to new server

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I am finishing the job of porting web sites to the new server. The new site uses PHP7, SQLite and HTML5. Things are different enough that I ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

The Martyrdom of Parley Pratt

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I was raised in Denver and grew up loving the history of the Old West. One of my goals in creating the Community Color sites was that sit...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

New Site and Advertising

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I am finalizing the the new site design for Community Color. I have only two sites pointed at the new server. The new site is much faster ...
Monday, February 06, 2017

Reviving Utah Color

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I have put this project off for too long! I am in the last stages of moving the Community Color sites to the new server. Due to changes in...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Small Business Special

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At the dawn of the Internet, I realized that small business was likely to get the shaft while big businesses make big deals between themselv...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Demise of ITT Tech

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Looks like The Obama Administration was successful in shutting  down ITT Tech. I wander if they will be able to shut down the University of ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Replacing Affiliate Ads with Direct Ads

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I am upgrading the Community Color Web Sites to PHP 7. I am also replacing MySQL with SQLite3 and upgrading to HTML5. It's a big projec...
Monday, September 05, 2016

Still No Date Picker in Firefox

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I am bummed out. Firefox still hasn't implemented the date picker that was in the HTML 5 specs that came out a few years back. I hold ...
Friday, September 02, 2016

New Privacy Policy

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I created a new privacy policy page for the Communtiy Color sites. The privacy policy tells the world that [gasp] I track activity on th...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Online Advertising

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I've been working on upgrading the Community Color sites. The process is taking longer than I had hoped. The new design will offer tar...
Monday, August 08, 2016

SQL Table Object

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I open sourced the code for the object I use to create simple HTML tables. This is somewhat of a Swiss Army Knife object that can be used to...
Friday, August 05, 2016

Path to Citizenship?

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In 2013, the US naturalized 777,416 immigrants. The chart on uscis.gov indicates that the United States has naturalized well over a half mi...
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