Kara Swisher's latest post on her blog highlights how the Huffington Post has launched a new feature called HuffPost Social News in which it allows readers to create a personalized social networking page right on the Huffington site. The Huffington Post has already used Facebook Connect since January, but it believes that news is ultimately moving more and more into the 'digital water cooler' direction.

Kara also mentioned that there are already 1.7 million comments on the site monthly, but if it expands its reach with social news that number can easily expand even further. It will be interesting to see where tv news will head in the future once online communities and social networks take control.