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The Great Blogger Degaussing Of 2006 Apparently the folks at Blogger have done a pretty horrible job of supporting their customers. Betsy Newmark had her entire site wiped out mysteriously by their system, and then experienced a boatload of frustration when she tried to correct the situation. Her URL also appeared to have been hijacked as well, but now seems like it's back on line. She vented to Glenn Reynolds: My blog disappeared from Blogger some time Tuesday. All I ge is a message that my blog wasn't found on their server. When I go to my Edit page, it...

Betsy Newmark, one of my favorite bloggers who I've been honored to have guest-blog here, is down. I asked her what happened. She e-mails about her nightmare: Evil Blogger has lost the page - server problems. They are the most unhelpful organization. You can't reach any human being and all I get are form letters saying that all the problems have been resolved. I'm just hoping that they fix their problem and I get back on. I don't have time to hassle with setting up a new page. She adds: All I get are their automated messages that are of...

If you missed John Stossel's special last month about how public schools are shortchanging our children, you missed this sadly quite believable story about how hard it is for schools to fire tenured teachers. The union contracts are so strong that a teacher can do practically anything, even write emails soliciting sex from students and not get fired. Joel Klein now presides over a calcified monopoly where it's hard to fire anyone for anything. One New York teacher decided that one of his 16-year-old students was hot. So he sat down at a computer and sent a sexual e-mail...