Summary: What is the point of individuals publishing about politics and geopolitics on the internet? These writings — seen as a collective project — tell us much about the current state of the Republic. This post looks at the internet (of which the FM website project is a microcosm) as a mirror of America and …
What if Samuel Adams tried to start the Revolution by blogging? Read More »
Summary:Â Yesterday we examined the job prospects for journalists when computers do much of their job as well as people. But it might not end there. Computers will become bloggers, either in collaboration with people, or software run by people as a hobby. Here we speculate about what kinds of blogs will be automated first. …
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There are a wide range of websites discussing geopolitics. Now modern technology gives us a means to sort them into objective (if quirky) categories. See Typealyzer! Here are some websites that I read; following that are the results from Typealyzer’s analysis. {Hat tip to Andrew Meyer for mentioning this} Fabius Maximus Zenpundit Abu Muqawama — following issues …
A guide to sources of geopolitical insight on the Internet Read More »
Recently this site passed the milestone of 300,000 page views and 3,000 comments since inception. Today we will hit have hit 200,000 visitors (per sitemeter). The traffic metrics appear at the bottom of the right-side menu bar. My thanks to all of you, the readers, who have made this possible — esp. those posting the informative comments that …
This blog opened in November 2007. It is a spin-off from Defense and the National Interest, whose Editors generously published my articles since September 2003.  There have been 150,000 “vews” of the FM blog (the counter appears at the bottom of the right-side menu bar). The daily rate has increased by 4x since November, to roughly 1,600/day. This is just …
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