Author Archives: lara

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”

I’ve been work­ing for over a week on a review of the book Web Dragons:Inside the Myth of the Search Engines. My drafts are copi­ous and they all suck for one rea­son or anoth­er. So in a fit of hav­ing to get some damn thing out by the end of the week I give you: This … 

Continue read­ing “Web Dragons and Basic Car Care for Women”

Bloggers blog­ging on blog­ging Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging is the com­pli­ca­tion of 30 posts from April of 2007 when Chitika (a blog­ger’s adver­tis­ing net­work) held a “blog­bash” about pro­fes­sion­al blog­ging. (I’m a suck­er for pdfs, or any­thing that I can print and take away from the com­put­er and this one is nice­ly designed for … 

Continue read­ing “TQR — Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging”

Today David Seah men­tioned in an almost aside to a post about learn­ing to net­work (a shared weak­ness) that he had read a cou­ple of books by Paulo Coelho and that these were, for him, the right books at the right time. For me the right book was Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore. I’ve read and … 

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