Kelly Ripa to Anderson Cooper: “Complete your tweet, You complete that tweet right now.” CNN: Your home to a Twitter Obsession. Video: CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°”

A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter.

Twitter is changing the way people communicate and follow trends. Current TV is taking advantage of user-generated video content. Both companies represent some of the new ways that media is evolving.

http://www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news

Its okay to let sites like Twitter and FaceBook point to trends in breaking news, but it still takes good, old-fashioned journalistic fact-checking with trusted sources to write it right.