Selection of My Twitter Favorites, Edition 70

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 interesting, useful, amusing, or disagreeable. Here is the 70th edition of My Twitter Favorites.

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   HowardKurtz Just got a webcam at work to share my many media thoughts on video. Downside: having to comb my hair. 10:21 AM Jun 18th from web
   
   
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   JRBtrip Gr8 quote - Murdoch summed up success in the digital age: "Big will not beat small any more - it will be the fast beating the slow." 5:49 AM Jun 18th from TweetDeck
   
   
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   davewiner A smiley basically says "I'm a nice person, my mother loves me, please don't hit me." :-) 12:18 PM Jun 17th from web
   
   
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   davewiner Liberal use of smileys helps avoid misunderstandings. :-) 12:18 PM Jun 17th from web
   
   
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   kidney_boy @dwmoskowitz why did docs lose curiosity? Three letters: IRB. The bureaucratic overhead to curiosity breaks the back of busy clinicians. 10:36 AM Jun 17th from Tweetie in reply to dwmoskowitz
   
   
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   schroncd I don't care for hiking. The longest hike I ever made was trying to find the car in a WalMart parking lot 8:47 AM Jun 17th from web
   
   
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   gruntdoc Our EMR is very dedicated: Even when it crashes: (it says “Cannot Quit”). http://tinyurl.com/nxp5to9:12 PM Jun 16th from twitterfeed
   
   
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   zappos Twittering is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there. 3:22 PM Jun 16th from txt
   
   
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   davewiner Twitter forces the whole web through a 140-character window. 7:12 AM Jun 16th from web
   
   
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    drscottgberg residency orientation is officially scaring me. 4:59 PM Jun 15th from web
    
    
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    timoreilly Jeff Immelt: "My job at GE is to look 20 years ahead....And every time I go to China, I get a headache." #wiredlive 4:05 PM Jun 15th from Seesmic Desktop
    
    

The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) in Selection of My Twitter Favorites does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind.

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Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be 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.