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An interesting article about just how much influence twitter has, and how much it can mess things up!

In this episode of Grey's Anatomy, the surgeons use twitter to update other surgeons across the country about their work. In return, other surgeons send back feedback. As a result, a life saving surgery is performed and a patient lives. All of this due to this social media!

An interesting video of a panel on how essays are important in modern education and professional writing. Ties in well with our discussions on cultural consciousness and writing.

An interesting call to use alternatives to press releases, when publishing's so easy to do, these days...

Something I mentioned to everybody in the class I led discussion during and something I'd meant to share a link to weeks ago, but something that's hyper-relevant, given the topic of today's reading and our latest title, "I live in the future & here's how it works." Enjoy!

Interesting thoughts on the future of news media industries.

Amazon introduces the Kindle that lets you share ratings of and highlighted passages from books you've read with your friends through social media networks, and introduces "Kindle Singles" -- "short stories written by well known authors and published electronically by Amazon that come at a cheaper price than full-length books," for our shorter attention spans.