Park Slope's Steven Berlin Johnson, the author of 6 books including The Invention of Air, Everything Bad is Good for You and Ghost Wars, has a story about Twitter in this week's Time Magazine. He is also the founder of outside.in, a local news web network.

How do I know? He twittered me about the article this morning.

"I've written this week's Time Cover story about how Twitter is changing the way we live and showing us the future of innovation. Buy a copy."

He followed up with this tweet:

"Here's the twist: that last tweet about the Time cover story "is" the cover of Time this week. Wrap your head around that!"

In the article he writes,

This is what I ultimately find most inspiring about the Twitter
phenomenon. We are living through the worst economic crisis in
generations, with apocalyptic headlines threatening the end of
capitalism as we know it, and yet in the middle of this chaos, the
engineers at Twitter headquarters are scrambling to keep the servers
up, application developers are releasing their latest builds, and
ordinary users are figuring out all the ingenious ways to put these
tools to use. There's a kind of resilience here that is worth savoring.
The weather reports keep announcing that the sky is falling, but here
we are — millions of us — sitting around trying to invent new ways to
talk to one another.