In which I point out only two of many many failings

IBC was apparently deleted sometime around August 2006. It is practically impossible to delete a blog unless someone intends to delete a blog. I have had very little to do with the administrators over there lately and don't know what exactly is going on between them. Hence this backup copy of links, just in case.

There are also apparently about a third more blogs in Arabic by Iraqi bloggers that have not been counted by IBC administrators, which Iraq the Model has recently mentioned. Considering some IBC administrators claim to speak Arabic and support diversity, I find this disappointing.

I am particularly disappointed by the lack of communication that allowed uncounted blogs to go uncounted. I collaborated on that blog with a young Iraqi Palestinian blogger and a young Iraqi Lebanese blogger in it's early days - and I am a zionist. So I really find it difficult to accept "having political differences" as an excuse.

Iraq the Model was sent an invitation to post to Iraq Blog Count shortly after Iraq Blog Count began, but Iraq the Model never replied. I know this, because I sent that first invitation. Iraq the Model was invited at least twice to contribute to Iraq Blog Count. The second time at the suggestion of two other bloggers who had been posting new blog updates to Iraq Blog Count, again Iraq the Model never replied. So the idea that Omar from Iraq the Model now complains "his" blogs are not represented by Iraq Blog Count, is more then a little hypocritical. I suppose Omar just kind of expected others to surf the web all day reading his mind and linking to things he couldn't get his crap together to link to himself. I guess he just kind of expected to be waited on hand and foot while he romped around in the park shaking Bush's bananas.

What is wrong with you people, you are privileged, you have money, you have web access, you all say you want democracy, you have educations, and yet you can't get your stuff together to maintain a simple blog directory with everyone in it. That goes for all of the administrators currently running IBC (how could you allow Iraq Blog Count to be nearly deleted!) and also to Omar at Iraq the Model who sat on his knowledge of 100 or so other blogs until such time as he could use his knowledge to score political points by complaining that Iraq Blog Count was not comprehensive enough - it is what you put into it, Omar.

At the moment this is just a backup list of links as they appeared on Iraq Blog Count in August 2006. I hope to find time to add any "missing" blogs later, and clean things up a bit.

Update

Well apparently that was an effective shake-up. The true Iraq Blog Count (that is, the first Iraq Blog Count) has now updated some things and is more up to date then this backup count. Last time I checked, Iraq Blog Count was on 222 blogs. But that's not including all of the ones Omar was complaining were hidden under the iceberg. So much for glacial impact. Still I needn't be sour just because other people are coming to grips with the phenomenal degree of sabotage certain parties tend to go around propagating, as if purposefully to disrupt things. What has become of the place though, and the openness it once had. When almost everything was included no matter what. And the other thing that bugs me about it is, Iraq Blog Count is now almost completely male oriented. There is not one woman posting updates to that blog now. And it shows.

One more update.

Well, after yet another hiccup (non sabotage) in which no-body was able to post to Iraq Blog Count for weeks on end because of a blogger bug, IBC now seems to be active again. Although somebody has changed most of the text to bold. Lord only knows why.

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