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Morning Extra: Premium Twitter Accounts, 140-Character Book Clubs

by Tom Samiljan on March 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM




Because we can't always cover all the great news in depth, we here at Switched have started a new A.M. feature, which recaps important stories that we may not have hit earlier in the morning. Welcome to our fifth edition of the Switched Morning Extra.

Picador Launches 140-Character Book Club on Twitter
The book publisher is offering a once-a-week discussion via tweets on a different title each week. The first book, Yoko Ogawa's 'The Housekeeper and the Professor,' will be discussed on April 10, with new tomes by Augusten Burroughs, Andrew Sean Greer, and Fiona Maazel being slated for discussion in the coming weeks. [From: PicadorUSA on Twitter, via GalleyCat]


Did Dish Network Violate the Do-Not-Call List?
The satellite television provider is being sued by four states and the U.S. government for allegedly violating the do-not-call list through its network of authorized dealers. And they supposedly did it in the most obnoxious way, via recorded messages. Dish, of course, denies the allegations. [From: Reuters]


Twitter Confirms That It Will Offer Premium Accounts
Hot on the heels of a similar-sounding hoax earlier this week, the white-hot microblogging service confirmed to Business Insider that it would, in fact, offer premium accounts aimed at businesses and individual 'power users.' The company didn't elaborate on a release date, specific features or pricing, but, presumably, these for-pay accounts will be more reliable and less crash-prone than the current, free ones. [From: Business Insider]


Most US Hospitals Not Using Digital Records, Study Finds
It's probably going to cost a lot more than the $19 billion pledged by the Obama administration to upgrade hospitals to digital records, as a new study reveals that only two-percent of U.S. hospitals have completely given up paper health charts and gone digital. Digital records are said to help reduce the overall cost of health care, but this looks like another case of having to spend money to save money. [From: AP/Newsvine]

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