News revolutionised
As I am writing this blog, I also have the Guardian's website on in the background with live updates on the discussions deciding who is going to run the country.
Only when I had to think of a topic to write about did it occur to me that, only a few years ago, this kind of immediate news and debate wouldn't have been possible.
Technology really has revolutionised news and enables an online conversation between writer and reader with much more immediacy than the Letters to the Editor page.
In elections past, this kind of news could only be reported in the morning's papers and then debated on television and radio, but now there are constant updates throughout the day online, and readers are encouraged to get involved.
On the one hand, this ensures readers are kept up to date, but it also means that what was printed on paper that morning is near redundant by noon because so much has subsequently been reported.
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