With information almost instantly available to us from more sources than we have ever had available to us before, what effect will this conversation have? For a little less than a century, we have been completely reliant on one-way media–television, newsreels, and radio–that turn the general public into passive consumers of information. Now, with tools like this blog and the newly-added comment sections on the websites of major news outlets, as well as internet forums and Twitter, conversation is making news interactive again, much like in the colonial newspapers.