Co-hosting the Chef Cliff Rome Show “Food and Entertainment” on WVON has afforded me many opportunities and I have learned to capitalize on the opportunities when they present themselves.

This past Thursday, Dr. Ian Smith medical expert from VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club did a phone interview on our show.

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Meeting Dr. Ian Smith was a pleasure and was great exposure for myself because I want to be a health reporter and not to mention I knew our listeners could benefit from his expertise.

Listen as he gives Chicago listeners great advice about health, eating right and living a happy life.
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Twitter was the first know to that Dr. Smith would be on the show and I was hoping that users would call in as I tweeted throughout the interview.

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I learned that Dr. Ian Smith lives in Chicago and worked closely with State Farm Insurance to launch the 50 Million Pound Challenge. Dr. Smith shared achievable tips, strategies for dieting and insisted that loosing weight should not be a short term goal. Loosing weight should not be attempted to do so in a week or month but gradually done.

This past April Dr. Ian Smith released his seventh book entitled “Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life” which is on the New York Times Best Seller List.

Sex and the City 2 -Twitpic posted by @retailmavens "Oh my gosh!!! It is starting!!! #satc2"

Sex and the City 2 hit Chicago theatres on May 26, 2010 at midnight.

Chicago’s Twitterverse counted down the excitement for the second round of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte on the big screen.

Rima Fakih, 24 won the title as Miss USA on Sunday, making her the first Arab Miss USA. The news instantly broke on various news outlets and social media sites making this news the most popular of them all.

However before anyone could celebrate Fakih’s great achievement as we soon discovered she was a former stripper.  Sounds like there might be a trend with the beauty contestants of the Miss Universe Organization.

The new Miss USA is a former stripper should not be a surprise to anyone especially if we look at past title holders of the Miss Universe organization, the former Miss USA Tara Connor and former Miss LasVegas Katie Reese. E Channel broke the news on Monday as they tweeted on Twitter.

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   ENews Miss USA Has a Secret Stripper Past. Why Are We Not Surprised? http://bit.ly/aIE1FE 17 May 2010 from twitterfeed
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   eonline Today’s most read story: Miss USA Has a Secret Stripper Past. Why Are We Not Surprised? http://bit.ly/b8rvGi 18 May 2010 from HootSuite

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Hazel Soares,94, is a college graduate after many years of what she refers to as a “busy life.” Soares, believed to be the second oldest college graduate, received a degree in art history from Mills College in Oakland, California on Saturday.

This past week Rapper T.I. did his first Interview on CNN’s Larry King Live since being released from jail in December 2009. Many of T.I’s fans tuned into see if jail changed T.I. and what he has in store for the future.

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In 2009, T.I was sentenced to serve a year and a day in jail, this comes after officials discovered that he had given his body guard $12,000 to purchase illegal firearms. CNN reported that the rapper was not allowed to have firearms because of a 1998 felony convictions of drug possession.

This won’t be the first time we see rap artists go to jail and serve time, but do many learn lessons from the crime committed and the time served? In the last decade we have seen very popular rappers go to jail, Lil’Kim, Gucci Mane, Foxy Brown and Lil Wayne who was recently incarcerated for weapon possession.

Bombox which is an aggrerator site with rss feeds on hip-hop news and r&b news, also included T.I. on the list of 10 Rappers Jailed. The Larry King interview with the rapper gave many fans a surreal look into his life and some very emotional periods he faced.

Many fans tweeted about the rapper’s future as well commended him on how poised and intelligent he appeared as he interviewed with Larry King.

Recently, the CIA placed an American on its controversial list of persons approved as targets to kill – an inaugural move. That person? Anwar al-Awlaki – a New Mexico-born man that is a fugitive in Yemen and appears to have ties to al-Qaeda.

Phish fans are notorious for their obsessive infatuation with the quartet from Vermont.  Those Phisheads looking to track all aspects of the band on Twitter can do so on the Web site Phish Twit an extension of Jamtopia.com.  There they can follow a live stream of all mentions of the band on Twitter as well as participate in a chat room and watch hosted videos – sometimes of Ustream users videocasting concerts from their phones.

Olympic diver Joaquin Capilla, 81, died Saturday of natural causes with his wife, Carmen, by his side.  Capilla began his career as an Olympic medalist at the age of 19, winning a bronze medal for platform diving in the 1948 games in London, England.

On March 27, 2010, Eva Markvoort, 25, former Miss New Westminster and University of Victoria theatre student lost her battle with Cystic Fibrosis.

While she was battling with the rare genetic disease that causes mucus to accumulate in the lungs, Markvoort fearlessly took up blogging to share her last few days with the world.

“Hello to the world at large…To my blog, to my friends, to everyone. I have some news today. It’s kinda tough to hear, but I can say it with a smile…My life is ending.” (Death at 25: Blogging the end of a life, CNN).

As journalism and social media continue to collide, the question lingers; how do journalists themselves see and user Twitter?

WGN Sports Reporter, David Kaplan is no stranger to his “followers” on Twitter. I had a chance to ask him (via Twitter) how he uses Twitter and what he thinks about its applicable journalistic capabilities.