Month October 2005

Indictment watch

No official news until Friday, however major media is all but saying Rove and Libby will be indicted. Manwhile, Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination, an obvious sign of a collapsing administration. Ordinarily this would be huge news, but Indictment…

Typepad growth woes

From Dave Winer, formerly of Radio Userland, on Typepad having serious performance problems of late. Science, art, voodoo and luck. Ben and Mena Trott explain why they’re having performance trouble on their Typepad service. Maybe our theory about putting the…

Moving to WordPress

Well, Polizeros is up and running well on the new WordPress platform. Wahoo! WordPress is open source, has dozens of plug-ins, an intuitive interface, and a growing user base. Plus, it has built-in support for podcasting. The more I use…

FairTest.org

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. We place special emphasis…