Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 39

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 (called "tweets") that you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 39th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):

1. AllergyNotes Releasing mosquitoes by Bill Gates into a startled crowd at TED described as "an amazing TED moment" http://is.gd/iu0o 11:40 AM Feb 5th from web
2. zephoria I wish scholars would spend less time denoucing tools like Twitter as illogical and more time puzzling why these tools do work for so many. 10:26 AM Feb 5th from twhirl
3. stevewhitaker Don't worry about the buggy mosquitos Gates released at #ted. Microsoft's working on a patch that's due out next year. 9:31 AM Feb 5th from twitterrific
4. grahamwalker Sad compliment I received: "Wow, you're the fastest doctor I've seen fill out the online death certificates." 4:32 AM Feb 5th from web
5. davewiner My grandfather's name was changed at Ellis Island. When Facebook finds out will I be deleted too? 4:21 AM Feb 5th from web
6. Pogue Massively depressing first day of TED. Climate change, plastic-choked oceans, depleted fish, melting ice caps, dead coral. sigh. 3:43 AM Feb 5th from twitterrific
7. AllergyNotes BMJ: "Traditional medical thinking follows the chimps: breast beating, head scratching, using rudimentary tools" http://is.gd/irKs 11:02 PM Feb 4th from TweetDeck
8. AllergyNotes A third of my blog readers don't visit the website at all -- they read the feed in a RSS reader or via email. A sign of the times. 9:52 PM Feb 4th from TweetDeck
9. PediatricInc Coding Tid Bit: Poor historian may justify increase level of billing. 11:52 AM Feb 4th from web
10. dickc I had a dream that I invented toast. Headed to morning meetings with renewed sense of self-admiration 10:18 AM Feb 4th from web
11. KidneyNotes @jasoncalacanis Alonso Mourning's kidney disease wasn't due to anti-inflammatory use. (Enjoying listening to TWiT, but that's wrong.) 7:35 AM Feb 4th from Tweetie
    
    
12. davewiner Invitation-only conferences should have a default no-twitter rule. Seems common-sense to the point of being obvious. 6:31 PM Feb 3rd from web
13. PediatricInc At my kids pediatrician. Noticed he has seen 27 patients in 3 hours. Nearly 10 an hour. Impressive or scary. Not sure which. 4:00 PM Feb 3rd from TwitterFon
14. dreamingspires @AllergyNotes except there is no permanence of words or thoughts on twitter. a blog is more of a diary for some, twitter a newsfeed. 11:29 PM Feb 2nd from TweetDeck in reply to AllergyNotes
15. kevinrose I think turning off tabbed browsing would make me more productive - 12 tabs open, one is a cats w/lasers video, no idea how I got here.. 9:20 PM Feb 2nd from twhirl
    
    

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.

If you are included in this post but would like to have your tweet removed for any reason, please email me and will comply with your request the same day.