Wrote this piece for the Guardian website. Funny thing, blogging for a newspaper website. You can't ever forget the fact that you're going to get some stick - a piece of knowledge that undoubtedly affects your writing. You either try to pre-empt the agressive, spiteful stuff (don't think that's true strong a word, even if the spite is casually delivered over the lunch-break) or you try to stir it up, to impress the editors with how many replies you get. Neither strategy helps you write the truth as you see it. It might be the future of something, but I'm pretty certain blogging isn't the future of great writing.....