Sunrise, Sunset/Swiftly Flow the Blogs

Hassan at the fictional, but informative, An Average Iraqi blog tallied the start-up and fade-out of Iraqi blogs between statue down and Constitution up. "Where is Raed" was the first, starting in June 2003--it went dark only seven months later on December 8th. On New Years day 2003, only two blogs were authored by Iraqis in Iraq. According to Hassan, by New Years Eve, there were:

22 Iraqi bloggers on the web. [Today,] only 15 of them still blogging, while most of the others quit a long time ago.

There were 66 Iraqi blogs at the end of 2004; only 37 survive.

As of November 11th, blogs still are booming:

Year 2005 has witnessed 46 new Iraqi bloggers so far. Right now 22 of them are still blogging. The total sum of the Iraqi bloggers to join the blogosphere since Pax first signed in on June 2002 is 112, of those there are only 59 active right now.

Unrelated to the foregoing, Haneen's Photo from Iraq blog contains pix of Baghdad over the past three months.