Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 37

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 37th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):

progressnotes Also learned about acamprosate (Campral), a med for treating alcohol dependence. The recommended dose is 666 mg, 3 times/day 11:20 PM Jan 27th from web

progressnotes Learned today that a fifth of liquor is equivalent to about 17 shots (fifth = 25.6 oz, shot = 1.5 oz). That's a lot of EtOH for one night. 11:11 PM Jan 27th from web

Scobleizer I'm sitting with @techcrunch (Mike Arrington) and he said that in Germany someone spit in his face and ran off today. Unbelieveable. 10:04 AM Jan 27th from web

fredwilson RT @albertwenger: Chad Hurley at #DLD saying that YouTube receives 15 hrs of new video in 1 min [attention is the scarce resource now!!] 8:16 AM Jan 26th from txt

EdBennett SM is like the Web in 1995 - at the same stage of acceptance by the powers that be. #healthcomm 9:00 PM Jan 25th from Power Twitter

EdBennett Biggest problem is getting upper management to take SM seriously - silly names like Twitter are a major obstacle. #healthcomm 8:14 PM Jan 25th from Power Twitter

davewiner Just figured something out. People confuse passion with anger. When I get excited I speak loudly and fast. I'm not angry I'm happy! :-) 4:43 PM Jan 25th from web

pyknosis After saying an EMR is just a program, the instructor now says, "it's showing some attitude," when trying do something it's not supposed to. 5:50 PM Jan 24th from web

AllergyNotes Top Hospitals and Social Media: 28% are on YouTube, 22% on FaceBook, 11% on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/cf3n8r 1:20 PM Jan 24th from TweetDeck

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.

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