1984: Revised and updated

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Blogs take over from dead trees

Not strictly George Stephenson world, but the success of political blogger Guido Fawkes in bringing down Gordon Brown's "McPoison" this weekend is seen by media academics as a sign of the growing maturity of the blogosphere, which can score direct explosive hits where the ailing and cash-strapped dead tree media are increasingly impotent (or in the case of the BBC being pressured by the Government).

More power to the gimlet Railway Eye.

So beware.

They may be watching us, but we are watching them...