Great article on why Twitter is important to the social web: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_reverses_policy_change_for_now_this_is_nut.php
Twitter was one of the technologies highlighted at a recent conference I attended, so I found this very interesting. The speaker was Patricia Martin, who wrote “RenGen” - all about the coming renaissance, old systems are dying and new things are growing aided by technological connectivity.