Iraqis Vote...and Blog About The First-Time Experience
Blogs do one thing really well: introduce Internet readers to new places, experiences and issues. And several Iraqis who voted for the first time on Sunday are sharing their experiences in almost real time at blogs such as Friends of Democracy, The Mesopotamian, and Free Iraqi.
Ali, a blogger in Baghdad, writes poignantly at Free Iraqi: "This was my way to stand against those who humiliated me, my family and my friends. It was my way of saying, 'You're history and you don't scare me anymore.' It was my way to scream in the face of all tyrants, not just Saddam and his Ba'athists and tell them, 'I don't want to be your, or anyone's slave. You have kept me in your jail all my life, but you never owned my soul.' "
The Iraqi elections, in fact, were all over BlogPulse today. Karfia Abbasi, an elderly woman who voted, was Sunday's burstiest person, followed by fellow voter Fathiya Mohammed.
And a whopping 21 of Sunday's top 40 links referred directly or indirectly to the Iraqi elections, including the sarcastic tone of Scrappleface.
On totally unrelated subjects, today's top links also include an Ohio State University study that mapped the romantic patterns of students at one high school for 18 months.
And you gotta give this guy credit for ingenuity: stuck in his car in an avalanche, he put the 60 beers stashed in his car to work.Literally.
BLOGPULSE TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: Here's how the Iraqi elections play out graphically.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at January 31, 2005 11:17 AM
