Most of the changes that the Internet has brought to journalism have been beneficial to readers and have made reporters' lives easier.
Google saves trips to the library; corporate Web sites save tedious background questions; multimedia reporting offers new perspectives on the news.
Others, however, have certainly made reporters' lives a bit harder; the need to fill Web sites with up-to-the-minute breaking news has certainly kept many in the newsroom late into the night, struggling to meet their mounting deadlines.
But ...