Friendfeed is like a real-time Twitter, with commenting per update. Very conversational and also integrates well with Twitter. If you are looking for a better social twitter, try Friendfeed.It can gather all of your social networks into one Friendfeed and then echo it out to Twitter.
You can create Friends that pull from other Twitter accounts.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.