It began as an internet joke with a friend. But then the media - including the Guardian - picked it up, and suddenly he was the Baghdad blogger, the most famous web diarist in the world
In the last in a series of blog posts he has written for Guardian Unlimited, Baghdad blogger Salam Pax describes the scenes in Baghdad as Iraqis go the polls for the third time in 11 months.
'A note for the future: fast-tracking democracy also means fast-tracking political apathy'
Tomorrow, Iraqis will vote in a general election, the third major poll in 11 months. Baghdad blogger Salam Pax has been filing regular dispatches to Guardian Unlimited ahead of the vote. He describes the mood in his country now that 'this time, it's for real'.
It began as an internet joke with a friend. But then the media - including the Guardian - picked it up, and suddenly he was the Baghdad blogger, the most famous web diarist in the world. Salam Pax describes what it was like to play cat-and-mouse with Saddam's censors.