Daily Archives: 4 Dec 05

Housekeeping

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I recently switched to weekly, instead of monthly, archiving of FmH’s back content. You will see the links to the archived files in the “archives” dropdown box in the sidebar to the left. There are three primary reasons for the switchover — easier searching; less unwieldy file sizes; and faster republishing, since Blogger regenerates the current archive and republishes it along with the index page whenever I post a new item.

The problem is that, in the week since I rearchived, Google has not crawled my site yet, so for the moment if you search for back content you will get outdated links to the old monthly archive files, which no longer exist, since I impetuously removed from my site as soon as the weekly archive files were generated. Not that I imagine there is a burning need on the part of most of my readers to search the back matter of Fmh, but I hope, out of consideration for you, that Google reindexes soon. I don’t suppose there is anything I can do to get them to notice they need to reindex more promptly, is there?

And, just to remind you, the best way to search for a term in FmH with Google appears to be to search for “(your searchterm) +~emg site:theworld.com”.

Rove Running Out of Answers, Time

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“The attorney representing Karl Rove in the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson has made a desperate attempt to ensure President Bush’s deputy chief of staff does not become the subject of a criminal indictment.

In doing so, Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, has turned the tables on the media, who ultimately fought a losing battle to protect Rove – their source – who revealed to some reporters Plame Wilson’s identity and CIA status.

Now Luskin has fired back, revealing to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that Viveca Novak – a reporter working for Time magazine who wrote several stories about the Plame case – inadvertently tipped him off last year that her colleague at the magazine would be forced to testify that Rove was his source who told him about Plame Wilson’s CIA status, several people close to the case said this week.

The latest twist in the two-year-old investigation has all the elements of a Hollywood thriller. New details in the case seem to emerge on a daily basis. Selective leaks to a small handful of newspapers and cable news stations are aimed at portraying some of the key Bush administration officials involved in the case in a sympathetic light, while casting Fitzgerald as a partisan prosecutor.” (truthout)

The great fiction crash of 2005

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“Although hard numbers for the fall season won’t be available until January, the anecdotal evidence is not encouraging. Agents and retailers are complaining that sales for new fiction are soft, that orders for reprints and back-listed books are down, and that publishing houses from Berlin to Boston are becoming choosier about what novels they buy, when they are willing to buy them, and what they are willing to pay.” (The Globe and Mail)

The great fiction crash of 2005

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“Although hard numbers for the fall season won’t be available until January, the anecdotal evidence is not encouraging. Agents and retailers are complaining that sales for new fiction are soft, that orders for reprints and back-listed books are down, and that publishing houses from Berlin to Boston are becoming choosier about what novels they buy, when they are willing to buy them, and what they are willing to pay.” (The Globe and Mail)