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by PIRAO Chief, September 20, 2004
MIM's central task: "to create public opinion and the independent institutions of the oppressed to seize power."
| Statistic | August, 2003 | August, 2004 | % change |
| Number of different computers MIM served* | 26933 | 31730 | +17.8% |
| Avg. MIM pages served per day | 2085 | 2835 | +36% |
| MIM data transferred | 75.00 megabytes/day | 131.15 megabytes/day | +43% |
| MIM Notes printed copies compared with pre-911=100 | 111 | 111 | |
| All language newspapers printed copies compared with pre-911=100 | 111 | 111 | |
| MIM prison circulation averaged over two months Jan 2002=100 | 31 | 0 | |
| Number of top 53 cites of U.$/Kanada receiving at least 1000 MIM Notes | Unknown | 3 | |
| Average days after print date by which 80% of papers have been distributed | Unknown | 5 | |
| Number of Art page users | 4109 | 5212 | +27% |
| Number of different MIM web page files actively chosen from | 3584 | 5859 | +64% |
| Amazon visitors sent from web page | 442 | 570 | +29% |
We continue to lag considerably behind our Five Year Plan goals. August 2004 compared favorably with August 2003 in variety of files that our readers found of interest, but the growth in users lagged behind the growth in content as measured by the number of different files touched by readers. The variety of files offered has allowed for a deepening of readership-- more pages taken per reader relative to growth in number of readers.
On the plus side, August is generally our slowest month in the year. In August 2004 we reached two major milestones: 1) Our readership was over 1000 people per day in our slowest month. 2) We handed out over 100 non-art & non-graphics files per hour on average in our slowest month. Since we achieved this in an August it is not likely we will go backward from that level of traffic.
We suffered another unexpected technical setback in August. We continue to hear your clamour for the publication of books (several of which are forthcoming) and the establishment of another Internet discussion group. We also apologize to our French-speaking readers: we have failed to print another edition of Notes Rouges. It's not that we forget our obligations. We simply fail to meet them. We are not usually so far out of line with our operational plans. Hopefully we are in transition to a higher stage level of operation.
A few oddball tidbits--outside the English-speaking countries, MIM's art page readers are heavily German and Iranian. We also had over 350 hits on our old review of "Sim City 3000," a complex simulation video game.