Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 16

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 16th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):

	AllergyNotes Google: "Accepting money to link to/promote/market for a product w/o disclosing that is a very high-risk behavior" http://tinyurl.com/57ut9r 2:46 PM Nov 19th from web
	AllergyNotes It does not look very professional when the first Google result for your name is your Facebook page... It's 2008. Start a blog at least? 2:34 PM Nov 19th from web
	AllergyNotes Study: Those who slept less than seven hours nightly had a 47 percent higher risk of cancer http://tinyurl.com/5dlseq 12:46 PM Nov 19th from web
	FatDoctor Just met a 92yo patient who looks not a day over 65. Amazing. 12:38 PM Nov 19th from Twittelator
	johnbattelle Parenting = self therapy. I felt like I was talking to myself while going over 7th grade traumas with my son tonight. 11:32 PM Nov 18th from web
	TechCrunch Ocarina Surges To Top Paid iPhone App Position http://tinyurl.com/6q2los 7:38 PM Nov 18th from twitterfeed
	AllergyNotes @pkedrosky R/T:Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: case of penalty kicks - better stay in place http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen... 3:44 PM Nov 18th from web in reply to pkedrosky
	AllergyNotes @Scobleizer Q "I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter instead of my blog. Was that the right decision? A: Probably not 3:42 PM Nov 18th from web in reply to Scobleizer
	AllergyNotes @Berci Congratulations! Just have in mind that @Scobleizer is following 20,962 other people as well... :-) 3:41 PM Nov 18th from web in reply to Berci
	Berci And now it happened: "Robert Scoble has subscribed to your FriendFeed" 3:01 PM Nov 18th from web
	steverubel I am down to using two apps - Firefox and Powerpoint. That's it. (Oh and iTunes occasionally.) http://ff.im/-4ulP 8:45 AM Nov 18th from FriendFeed
	jeffjarvis Boston Legal just called bloggers primitive lifeforms. Heh. 9:52 PM Nov 17th from web
	TechCrunch best email autorsps ever: "I will be on the road through Friday the 21st. If it is an emergency, take a deep breath and try to stay calm." 9:27 PM Nov 17th from web
	AllergyNotes "After mentioning any company name on Twitter, the company starts following me" http://tinyurl.com/5w7vbl 6:02 PM Nov 17th from web
	AllergyNotes Retiring physician Bill Lippy passing on his knowledge via an online library http://tinyurl.com/66z3mk 5:56 PM Nov 17th from web

	AllergyNotes HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community http://tinyurl.com/6gl27n 6:06 PM Nov 17th from web
	AllergyNotes @steverubel Re-tweet: Paul Stamatiou sent his MacBook to Apple for repair and it came back with a German keyboard!? http://ff.im/-4d6d 6:03 PM Nov 17th from web in reply to steverubel
	chrisseper At Li Wah. Fortune cookie says: "The greatest risk is not taking one." Wow. 12:18 PM Nov 17th from txt
	davewiner Finally, a President is about to take office who is not a member of our demographic. That will be a relief. Can't blame us anymore! :-) 10:12 AM Nov 17th from web
	AllergyNotes @biz R/T: Twitter has a Universal Translator feature, e.g. if you don't read Hebrew just click "Translate" on this page: http://bit.ly/9GHV 11:49 PM Nov 16th from web in reply to biz

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.