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Politics of the FM site: radical leftist reformer or right-wing iconoclast?

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 53 Comments / 25 February 2009 28 May 2015

Here is an answer to the most-often asked question about this site: what is its political orientation, its bias? Is the FM site home of a radical leftist reformer or right-wing iconoclast? One virtue of the FM site is its clear position about the politics of 21st century America: I stand against them. Choosing a party today is like …

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The FM site passes a milestone

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 4 Comments / 20 January 2009 20 February 2009

Over 500,000 visitors since inception in November 2007, per Sitemeter. Some other metrics: Over 836,000 page views since inception, per WordPress. Over 6,500 comments since inception. This is the 668th post (posts from Sept 2003 – Nov 2007 were copied from DNI). The site currently gets about 4,000 page views per day. The Technorati “Blog …

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The most popular posts on the FM site during its first year

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 3 Comments / 8 November 2008 20 February 2009

Today is the birthday of the FM site, one year since the first post after being pushed out of the Defense and National Interest “nest.” Here is some material you might find of interest. The most important posts, in my opinion. The most-viewed posts. Traffic on the FM post in its first year of operation. 1. The most …

The suggestion box is open: how can the FM site be improved?

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 20 Comments / 15 October 2008 20 February 2009

This week the FM site hits some new milestones, as Internet sites are measured. This is just a dot in the great Internet ocean, but has had modest success in the class of English-language sites featuring long and somewhat technical articles about geopolitics. So let’s open the suggestion box! How can the FM site be improved? …

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Trivia note about the FM blog

By Larry Kummer, Editor / 4 Comments / 26 August 2008 20 February 2009

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 …

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