Six Possible Changes to the World Map by 2020

This week at Amazing Stories, I dip my toe into some future history by covering the six potential changes to the world map by 2020. So those mapmakers who maintain the editable political maps at AlternateHistory.com, please take not. You got some work ahead of you in the future. In the meantime, did I miss any other changes to the globe?

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Matt Mitrovich is the founder and editor of Alternate History Weekly Update and a blogger on Amazing Stories. Check out his short fiction. When not writing he works as an attorney, enjoys life with his beautiful wife Alana and prepares for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. You can follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

60,000 Page Views!

[Editor's Note: This is old, we already surpassed 80k]

Last night, Alternate History Weekly Update surpassed 60,000 page views. What is more exciting is that we managed to break this barrier only a month after I announced our 50,000th page view.  With the current rate of a page views, I am debating waiting until every 20,000th page view to write a post like this.  Still these posts are good for giving readers an idea on how the blog is doing, so I will continue to report on every 10,000th page view as long as one month passes.

Moving on, I would like to thank the contributors, authors and fans for helping us grow. Check out the updated world map below:

World map of readers 4/26/12

World map of readers 7/12/12

[EDIT 7/17/12: Kazakhstan should be filled in, no idea why it is not.]

Now onto our social networking presence:

• We had 45 Google followers on 6/11/12, now we have 50 (Goal: 100 by 6/13).
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• We had 110 Twitter followers on 6/11/12, now we have 143. (Goal 300 by 6/13)
• We have 7 Networked Blogs followers.  (Goal: 15 by 6/13)

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Matt Mitrovich is the founder and editor of Alternate History Weekly Update, a volunteer editor for Alt Hist and a contributor to Just Below the Law. His fiction can be found at Echelon Press, Jake's Monthly and his own writing blog. When not writing he works as an attorney and enjoys life with his beautiful wife Alana.