Today is election day in the United Kingdom, and the polls are just closing. Polls have been open all day as people continued to flood in to place their vote.

According to the Financial Times the “Final opinion polls suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament in which the Conservatives are short of an overall majority in the House of Commons.” However, the conservatives right now are in place to achieve a dominant lead over the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties. If the conservatives win, this will be the first time in 13 years that they lead with David Cameron as the Conservative party leader.

Twitter is being embraced as a tool for journalists today, when only a few years ago online media was viewed negatively by many “traditional” journalists. The way information is shared has changed immensely since the beginning of online news services and is being shared at a rapid pace by everyone, not only journalists.

Kyra Kyles, a reporter and columnist for Tribune Redeye and broadcast contributor, says that Twitter inspires the topics she chooses to write about in her column and on her blog.

Tsunami, Indonesia by Photojournalist, Karl Grobl (@karlgrobl)

As the tsunami of the digital media revolution engulfs the globe, Journalism’s visual branch is now being played out in two teams; on one end of the spectrum are the citizen photojournalists and on the other end are the professionally trained photojournalists.

Bloggers equipped with camera phones, a basic knowledge of some photo editing software and access to a photo-sharing website are now capable of producing photographs.

What is the impact of this new wave of camera-phone photojournalism on a professionally trained photojournalist?

Paper.li is to Twitter what Kindle is to book lovers; the difference is that it comes free of cost.

A new trend spreading fast across Twitterers, Paper.li allows users to create their own digital newspaper based off a Twitter stream. From Bill Gates and Paris Hilton to WWF Climate and Larry King Live, choose your niche and get up-to-date news on your select category in a multitude of media forms, including video and visuals.

A snapshot of Bill Gates’s paper.li stream:

Call it a Tweetpaper, a tweet aggregator or as Dr. Wilhelm Greiner states, New York Twimes maybe:

The iPad has officially been available in the U.S. for over a week now, making it’s grand debut April 3 to the general public. The conversation on Twitter has changed from one of anticipation and ridicule to one of amazement and disdain. What has the iPad replaced and what will replace it? Twitter users report their initial observations and thoughts.

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   mollywood (Undisclosed location) Ok, returned the iPad. Too heavy to replace Kindle, too limited to replace netbook, too representative of closed-system evil to live with. 12 Apr 2010 from Seesmic
2. 
   Akira67 (France) World’s first iPad marriage proposal http://u.nu/2rt98 (via @GuyKawasaki) 12 Apr 2010 from Twitterrific
3. 
   Funzafunza (Undisclosed location) Who is working on an iPad-Killer? HP, Dell, Nokia & according to Eric Schmidt. Google too: http://j.mp/crUPKS (via @nickbilton) 12 Apr 2010 from Tweetie

 

Journchat has a friend.

The popular Monday night chat on Twitter, held weekly from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. EST and founded by Sarah Evans (@PRSarahEvans), is now flanked by a related chat on Wednesday nights, Journo Cafe.

Ever wish there was a way to organize your chaotic Twitter stream into a series of columns, one with pictures, one with replies, one with retweets, one with generic chatter, and even one with potential story ideas?

Yes, there’s Tweetdeck for those familiar with Twitter, but now there’s a new option out there, designed with the journalist in mind: JournoTwit.