Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 14th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):
Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.
You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.
 | fredwilson Just wrapped up a meeting with someone who lit up a cigarette during the meeting. That hasn't happened to me in maybe ten years | |
 | AllergyNotes Video: Google Trends predicts flu activity better than CDC data? http://www.google.org/about... | |
 | steverubel Google Flu Trends is totally awesome (note the CDC is a client) http://ff.im/-1ZTI | |
| | AllergyNotes Considering data mining Twitter for "allergy" -- we may see some interesting trends: http://tinyurl.com/5b39vo | |
| | AllergyNotes Twitter has just passed the one-billion Tweet mark. I helped a bit w 2k posts http://tinyurl.com/6plxuy | |
 | pkedrosky @fredwilson the absence of "hedge" in hedge funds has been true for decades. name is a misnomer. always has been. | |
| | fredwilson Hedge fund manager: where is the 'hedge' in hedge funds? | |
| | steverubel I wonder if Gmail video chat will become video email next. Bet it will. http://ff.im/-1FBi | |
 | progressnotes ...and anxiety about getting "pimped" by my attending when I present the patient... | |
| | progressnotes Woke up well before my alarm. Probably anxiety about seeing my first patient at the VA Hospital today. | |
 | JasonCalacanis how does oil go from 140 a barrel to 60 in three months? $2 a gallon gas a couple of months after $4? http://www.wtrg.com/daily/c... | |
 | Stammy "According to the numbers, for every year a person worked past the age of 55, he/she died two years earlier." #retirementfail | |
| | steverubel Sprint is tracking the global zeitgeist http://ff.im/-16Sf | |
 | chrisseper  Random Clinic doc walked up to me, called me Bill Gates, snapped my picture & walked off. | |
 | KidneyNotes Drug reps taking pains to ensure I understand their drug is called "Lovaza" -- not "Lavaza," which is a type of espresso. | |
| | KidneyNotes Patient just explained to me that his previous doctor smoked a cigar during the physical exam... | |
| | steverubel Gmail is like the Swiss Army Knife of the Web. Now I am using it as a feed reader. http://ff.im/-UgZ | |
 | davewiner I have 38725 emails in my inbox. I gave up a long time ago on going through all of them. Amazed some people try. :-) | |
 | ruraldoctoring @chrisseper @rlbates Jenny McCarthy is doing more harm than any dozen inept doctors could achieve in a lifetime. It's criminal. | |
| | chrisseper Consistently disappointed at how quickly Jenny McCarthy's autism group is becoming so trendy and popular. | |
Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.
You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.