| Q3 2011 figures - another record quarter across our network |
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| October 3rd 2011 |
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| The third quarter of 2011 has seen another decent rise in visits to the Blatant Independent Media! network of websites, with 78,879 visits in total, producing 138,078 pageviews, both of which are quarterly records. September was our best month to date, with just over 29,000 visits, so hopefully that trend keeps up, and we manage to continue to get a lot of useful information, videos and images out there to a great many people. For the month ahead we will be concentrating on images. We have begun the process of locating the highest resolution available of all images which are featured on Blatant World, and adding them to the Blatant Image Bank. |
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| Related Link: BIM! Quarterly Visits/Page Views |
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| Blatant World v2.0 launched - now testing in beta mode |
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| October 3rd 2011 |
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| Over the past week we have launched a completely new version of the BlatantWorld.com website. We had previously planned to overhaul many of the sections, but during that process we decided that it was much more worthwhile to redesign the entire website. v2.0 has a new logo, better sharing buttons and some new sections (the most notable being Questions & Answers and Interviews/Press Conferences), plus the page/menu layouts have changed. In a few weeks, when the beta testing is concluded, we will then upload the Facts + Figures articles - the only pages which are currently displaying in the old design. |
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| Related Link: BlatantWorld.com Homepage |
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Blatant Independent Media! Milestone
- A Quarter of a Million Visits |
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| July 19th 2011 |
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| The 2nd quarter's overall web statistics have provided another record number of visits to our websites, with just over 67,000 visits in total. Over the past weekend we have also passed another major milestone, with the overall total of visits which have now been made to BIM! websites passing the quarter of a million mark. |
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| Related Link: BIM! Quarterly Visits/Page Views |
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| New Resource: Blatant Image Bank |
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| May 16th 2011 |
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| Our 2nd (and final) new website is the 'Blatant Image Bank', an image library of full-sized political, civil rights, historical, environmental, scientific, war and military pictures which have been featured on Blatant Independent Media! websites (Blatant World, Fairocracy and Disputed Territories). The vast majority of the featured photos/illustrations are available for commercial & non-commercial reproduction, because they are either (1) public domain images, or (2) they are available under free-to-use image licenses (mainly Creative Commons licenses). We hope that this resource will become educational and useful for all those who take the time to visit, and that it may become a valuable tool for bloggers and activists when sourcing a particular type of image. |
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| Related Link: BlatantImageBank.com Homepage |
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| New 'Disputed Territories' Website Launched |
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| May 2nd 2011 |
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| We have just launched a new website - Disputed Territories - to act as a database of unresolved territorial disputes around the World. There are about 50 disputes currently listed, with only a basic overview of the issue included on many, but we expect to expand all dispute profiles to include general details, facts and figures, images, maps, timelines and a list of websites related to the dispute in question. The number of disputes listed is also expected to rise, to about a couple of hundred. |
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| Related Link: DisputedTerritories.com Homepage |
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| BlatantWorld.com has now breached over 100,000 visits in total since January 2010 |
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| February 18th 2011 |
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| In mid-February 2011 we saw the 100,000th visit to BlatantWorld.com in total. This figure relates to visitor numbers since the 1st of January 2010, although there were a further few thousand visits to the site whilst we played about with it in the latter part of 2009, we see January 1st 2010 as the true day zero! The site has been gaining momentum, and for the sixth month in a row, February 2011 will see a month-on-month increase in figures - the lowest being 17%, the highest being 43%. Our aim is to get 300,000-500,000 visits during 2011, and we are on target to achieve this. |
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| Related Link: BlatantWorld.com 2010 Yearly Report |
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| 2011 Irish General Election persuades us to launch Fairocracy earlier than planned |
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