Don’t get me wrong, I believe news anchors are vital to our coverage of current events, but I am watching the Vice Presidential debate at home and came across HACK THE DEBATE.

Now, I don’t know what will be visible once you click on the link, but here’s a run down of what it was when it was live. You’ll need to understand two major components that went into creating this:

1. CurrentTV - a television station that broadcasts programs created by the audience…in essence it what web 2.0 is, but for television. It came about in 2005 and has been on the air 24/7 since then. Current.com came about a few years later as a way for the audience to be involved even further.

2. Twitter – a microblogging site that supports instant blog posts, limited to 140 characters (about the length of a standard text message). Twitter is part social network, part blog site. Twitter’s power lies in the built in features that allow tweets to mesh with other programs.

So what was on current.com during the VP debate? Think: VH1′s pop-up video meets CNN. As people posted their tweets marked with a tag #current, they would pop-up, in real time, on the Current TV airing of the debate. Most of the comments were relevant and appropriate with only a few making comments that were less than appropriate.

This is powerful! This is amazing! I can’t get enough of web 2.0 mash-ups.