For some reason the numbers in brackets that tell you how many comments there have been on each post seem stuck today. If you click on the links the full complement of comments show up, though.
Weird Haloscan comment problem.
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Not sure you got this one
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/
scroll down to ‘One Day in Iraq’ – June 15
here’s a permalink to the actual article.
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/06/restricted-blog-bbc-not-allowed.html
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blogger guesses: ‘Obviously the BBC found my day too boring to be reported’
(the blogger’s day)
‘my day wasn’t a special one; I took the bus to central Baghdad then changed buses to get to the clinic where I work at in a southern suburb of Baghdad then after doing the usual daily work at the clinic I went with 2 of my friends and Mohammed to have drinks and lunch in one of our favorite restaurants. […]’
(my comment)
yes, actually, that is boring. I can see why it wasn’t used.
The Haloscan comments are not just stuck, they are decreasing.
I had 184 comments on one post this morning. In the afternoon it was down to 174 and then down to 168.
???
This happened before. After a day or two it went away as mysteriously as it came.
The BBC has now posted on the Iraq the Model blog comments re their non use of Omar’s input.
Save y’all having to scroll thru hundreds of other posts I’ve copied it below.
Far as I can see it’s another of those re-arrange the facts after the event responses that’ll be familiar to anyone who’s made a complaint to the Beeb.
Omar,
I was one of the reporters that interviewed you for the BBC, and let me be clear about how we used your material for radio – at least the interview I conducted – and for the web because I also was involved in the online part of the Day in Iraq project.
We definitely used your interview on Radio 5 on a new hour-long programme devoted to looking at news and current affairs through the eyes of podcasters and bloggers. Your experience wasn’t too pedestrian and wasn’t left on the cutting floor. We did have to cut some of it just due to poor quality of the line, which was a shame. I fought to get as much on air as possible. But you yourself knew how poor the line was. I’ve sent you the audio as an MP3 file, please feel free to post it on your site if you have the ability to do that. Maybe, it can be Iraq The Model’s first podcast?
As for the Day in Iraq online project and the quotes from bloggers. For the purposes of the project, we started our ‘Day’ at roughly sunrise in Iraq and carried on for 12 hours.
We limited ourselves to those blog posts during that ‘day’. Unfortunately, you didn’t post. Maybe, I should have e-mailed you and let you know what we were doing to encourage you to post. However, I didn’t do that because I didn’t feel it was my place to artificially intervene like that. I wanted bloggers to post or not to post that day because they wanted to post not because we the BBC wanted to get some posts. We wanted authenticity, not blog posts for the sake of blog posts.
Glad that you have a blog so that we can be clear about the motivations and our internal thinking. That’s the great thing about this medium. Thanks.
all the best,
k
Kevin Anderson
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