I am addicted to communication. I daren’t look it up on Google because it is probably a recognised condition somewhere like Silicon Valley and realising that would just make my condition worse.

I’ve known for a while that any spare moment i get - waiting for a train, walking to the drinks machine, going to the loo… i just can’t help but get my Blackberry out.

I check emails, compose emails, look at the website and generally do anything other than just sit back, relax and amuse myself in my own mind - which is a shame because that’s something i used to be good at.

It’s got so bad now that if i’m on my own, with no blackberry i feel kind of lost - cut off and i find my own company is no longer good enough. I need communication. Help!

I am not the only one who feels the whole world could be at a crossroads right now -  with the result of the US Election probably deciding the course of much more than just income tax levels in down town Idaho.
The implications for the World seem huge - because the possible outcomes seem so different.
Anyway, there are tons of political blogs for this sort of thing.
What interests me is the use of the internet in this election.
There has been a proliferation of internet blogs about this election.
Some are by concerned voters, some are set up us fundraisers for the campaigns and some are even funded and by the parties with a view to disseminating information to voters in a new way.

The internet is also going to be used to cover the elections in a new way.
The Guardian - at the forefront of online journalism as usual - will even be getting its journalists to Tweet using Twitter to keep us up tro date throughout the night. I’d like to  point out that Property Week used Twitter as far back as MIPIM in March

Also, according to AFP more journalists than ever before are descending on the US from around the World to cover this election and they will be “posting Internet photos, videos and blogs” - no more running to the nearest pay phone to dial in your copy - most will be using web-based Content Management Systems to put copy straight onto websites and that same copy will then be used to write tomorrow’s papers.

And that’s where the internet comes into its own - its immediacy. You can Tweet from an election count straight to the Guardian website so that someone in Guildford will know the result of a Key primary before anyone outside the Town Hall i the town itself.

Newspapers cannot compete. They will have the in-depth look at what it all means - not the NEWS itself - which is now almost exclusively to be found online, on TV and on Radio.

I can’t wait to see this election unfold in all its multimedia glory