Author Archives: lara

Go to the Ambidextrous Magazine web­site. Click on one of the PDFs on the front page. Read the nice­ly illus­trat­ed, pro­fes­sion­al­ly type­set arti­cle. Carry one of the ideas around in your head for the rest of the day. Tell me what you saw. (thanks to DR over at meta­cool for the orig­i­nal link.)

Following on the Web Dragon’s book review post. Smashing Magazine has an arti­cle on how Google’s PageRank (cur­rent­ly) works. It’s a sum­ma­ry of the things that are known about Google’s PageRank algo­rithm. It’s good to see a dis­cus­sion of PageRank that reminds the read­er the PR is a mea­sure of quality/authority of a page and … 

Continue read­ing “Web Dragons X‑Ray: From Smashing Magazine — PageRank Explained”

Re the pre­vi­ous two posts. As I men­tioned ear­li­er today, there’s more than one thing hinky about one of the local TV sta­tion’s web­site. I now know exact­ly how I got myself stuck in mem­ber­ship hell. Follow along: open your favorite brows­er. go to www.king5.com enter a search like, say, “one car” enter anoth­er, “two trucks” another, … 

Continue read­ing “And Now I Know How I Ended Up in Membership Hell.”

I have now found the heinous mem­ber­ship page on the KING5 web­site. I’m not sure how a got there the first time, and to be fair when I went there on pur­pose — by click­ing on the top nav bar — I had no trou­ble using the back but­ton to return to the page I … 

Continue read­ing “Become a Member? Of a TV Station?”

Pay per view isn’t always in the form of sub­scrip­tions and the com­pa­nies that bring you your local news are either greedy or stu­pid or most like­ly very much both. This morn­ing I went to one of the local TV sta­tion’s sites (KING5) to have a look at a piece of video and I learned what … 

Continue read­ing “The News Ain’t Free”