Susan over at Garden Variety has a pretty spectacular story about social networking's role in publishing a book.

This isn't just your usual "blog becomes book" story, though. Three women, one from our own Calvert County, who only know each other through Twitter brought their combined experiences together and created a gardening book -- in 60 days.

Using Facebook, Twitter and their own blogs, they gathered information about herbs, vegetables, fruits, diseases and even recipes from their thousands of followers and made a resource that, in turn, all those followers and fans have a stake in.

Imagine, going from a few tweets to a contributing author. Crowd-sourcing really is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised -- or disappointed -- to see many more such collaborations in the future.