Blogs Chew Over Food and Health while Iran Surges on Twitter

In a week when the mainstream media were focused on the health care reform battle raging in Washington, the blogosphere highlighted two stories that presented a different kind of health debate. Could blue M&M's have some therapeutic properties? And does organic produce offer major nutritional benefits? On Twitter, the internal turmoil in Iran not only continued to dominate, it reached its highest point in weeks. From July 27-31, 39% of the links from blogs and some other social media were aimed at two stories about food, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.