This year, with the rush of events from the Middle East, being on Twitter is like stepping into the stream of living history. And just below the surface is another layer of links to smart and succinct analysis, as hundreds of knowledgeable commentators step back and apply their experience and insight to makes sense of what they are seeing and hearing. The next layer will be longer pieces in monthly magazines and quarterly journals, where scholars and experts have more time to put the pieces together and take a longer view. And finally the books — we do still read and need books, even if we read them electronically — assembling the larger mosaic that we come to understand as history.
(Source: NPR)
