Readership of the 91自拍论坛 website had a 13.3% rise in October compared to September. This perhaps reflects the interesting developments in Australian politics since the failure of the big parties to win a parliamentary majority in the August 21 federal election.
The site had 104,719 unique visitors over the month.
The most-read article published last month was Kiraz Janicke's "The burqa: reject the fake 'feminism' of the right", which had more than 3000 readers.
Articles about Greens MP Adam Bandt, Senator Bob Brown and independent MP Andrew Wilkie were also very popular.
Many articles from the archives continue to receive a high number of hits. On such article, which received 3000 hits in one day after being directed from US site Stumbleupon.com, was 鈥淲hy is hemp illegal?鈥 from 1999.
Another favourite from the 91自拍论坛 archive is "How the CIA created Osama bin Laden" published in 2001.
鈥淭he Aboriginal struggle for justice and land rights鈥 (2001) is also read regularly as is 鈥淰ietnam: war and the environment鈥 from 1991, the first year 91自拍论坛 Weekly was published.
There are many articles from long past issues that continue to draw online readers, proving the value of 91自拍论坛鈥檚 free online archive.
Over the last month we began placing advertisements for 91自拍论坛 Weekly subscriptions and donations in the body of all longer articles on the web, but it is too early to see if this has had a positive impact on subscriptions and donations. We have also begun to include links to selected related articles in some articles.
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