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Hope you’ve all enjoyed the first day of the new ForeignPolicy.com. This is still very much a work in progress and we’re only just beginning to figure out how to take advantage of the new format. In particular, it looks like the interaction between our all-star lineup of bloggers is going to be fun. I ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.

Hope you've all enjoyed the first day of the new ForeignPolicy.com. This is still very much a work in progress and we're only just beginning to figure out how to take advantage of the new format. In particular, it looks like the interaction between our all-star lineup of bloggers is going to be fun.

Hope you’ve all enjoyed the first day of the new ForeignPolicy.com. This is still very much a work in progress and we’re only just beginning to figure out how to take advantage of the new format. In particular, it looks like the interaction between our all-star lineup of bloggers is going to be fun.

I also wanted to take this chance to heap much-deserved praise on two of the unsung heroes of this endeavor, Web Developer Blaine Sheldon and Webmaster Tom Stec. Even under normal circumstances there’s no way we could function without these guys and in the runup to the relaunch, they worked ridiculous hours to get the site running smoothly and looking fantastic.

Thanks also to everyone who wrote in or blogged with feedback, both positive and (constructively) negative. Keep it coming!

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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