Despite a VERY busy day today, I’m itching to do at least one Plurkcast this week (there may be others) and that will be this evening. This Wednesday evening hour seemed to work out well for a lot of people last week. This evening, we will talk about the continuing lack of our privates tab, Google Chrome mania on Plurk, the transfer of the ethos of Plurk into the real world, and what you want to see from future Plurkcasts, including where we have them and when they are. Join us at:

8:00 Central, 9-3-2008, at: www.stickam.com/plurkcast

To make it easy on yourself when the time comes, you could go now and joins Stickam so that you can participate. After you have joined, please search for the Plurkcast user and make a friendship request. I will approve that (of course) and you will be able get right in for the webcast. (that would be Stickam user Plurkcast, not Stickam user kdfrawg, although you’re welcome there, too.)

If you have anything that you would like us to talk about specifically, please type it into the chat window, or join us on the phone and let us know!

I’m KDFrawg and I’ll see you at the Plurkcast.

It looks like we’re doing at least one Plurkcast this week (there may be others) and that will be this evening. The Wednesday afternoon time that we had been using was difficult for a lot of Plurkers and they were unable to be with us. This evening, we will talk about the continuing lack of our privates tab, the great job the A-Team did with speeding up Plurk after the slowdown last week, the transfer of the ethos of Plurk into the real world, and what you want to see from future Plurkcasts, including where we have them and when they are. Join us at:

8:00 Central, 8-27-2008, at: www.stickam.com/plurkcast

To make it easy on yourself when the time comes, you could go now and joins Stickam so that you can participate. After you have joined, please search for the Plurkcast user and make a friendship request. I will approve that (of course) and you will be able get right in for the webcast. We’ll see what we can do to stay on topic in order to satisfy chewbocka, but we don’t make any promises.

I’m KDFrawg and I’ll see you at the Plurkcast.

We have been talking about taking the Plurkcasts to video for quite some time, and today is the day. Not only are we going to video, but we are doing two shows today, one at 4:00 pm Central time and another at 8:00 pm Central time. A number of us have been testing the available streaming videocast services, and have settled on Stickam. It seems to offer the best combination of quality and features.

You can watch and listen just by going to the URLs listed below. In order to participate in the video Plurkcast, you will need to join Stickam, just like you had to join Talkshoe for the audio-only shows. You can join Stickam at Stickam.com. It only takes a few minutes and is free. To make it easier, please search for Stickam user Plurkcast and send a friend request, which I will approve. That way, at show time, you can log in, click on your friends list, and then on the Plurkcast.

Both shows will be at the same Stickham URL, but to avoid any confusion, here is today’s schedule.

4:00pm Central 8-20-08 at www.stickam.com/plurkcast

8:00pm Central 8-20-08 at www.stickam.com/plurkcast

You are also invited to the after-party following the 8:00 show. We would like you to stop by and tell us how to improve the new video-format shows. We want to do what you want us to do (within reason). The after-party will be on my personal Stickam account, details as follows:

9:30pm Central 8-20-08 at www.stickam.com/kdfrawg

We have been having a lot of fun during the testing, and will probably have as much during the show and the after-party. Please feel free to watch and listen just by going to www.stickam.com/plurkcast. If you join Stickam, you can also participate via video and audio, or audio only if you are shy. The shows will be recorded for posterity and will be available for viewing later.

I’m KDFrawg, and I hope to see you at the Plurkcasts!

The dynamic duo ( well, the Squire is dynamic! ) is back to bring you another song just for Plurkers. SquireHogg has done his usual magnificent job, making even the weird words of KDFrawg sound good. This time it’s an old show tune, and the Squire has given it the full treatment! It captures a lot of the way Plurk feels on a really good night. SquireHogg is one of the most talented people on Plurk and we are incredibly lucky having him use his talents for Plurk-good and not Plurk-evil. With no further ado, I present:

There’s No Business Like Plurk Business
©2008 by Michael W. Jones and Howard M. Segal

There’s No Business Like Plurk Business

I’m KDFrawg and I wish I could do what SquireHogg can do!

(as requested, here’s the lyrics…)

MEN’S CHORUS:
The timeline, responses, the critters, the Plurks
The Plurkers who lift you when you’re down

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The typos, the bad plurks, the back bites, the blues
The @amix who escorts you out of town

MEN’S CHORUS:
The First Plurk when your heart beats like a drum

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The long nights when the Plurks just won’t come

ALL:
There’s no business like Plurk business
Like no business I know

MEN’S CHORUS:
Everything about it is appealing

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
Everything the timeline will allow

MEN’S CHORUS:
No where could you have that Plurkish feeling
Why wait for later, you can Plurk now!

ALL:
There’s no people like Plurk people
They Plurk when they are low

MEN’S CHORUS:
Yesterday they told you Plurk would not go far

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
One night Plurk opened and there you are

MEN’S CHORUS:
Today on your profile they have hung a star

ALL:
Let’s go on with the show

MEN’S CHORUS:
The lurkers, the Plurkers, the moaners, the clowns
The Plurkabouts that Plurk around ’til dawn

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The guy-Plurks, the gal_plurks, the smilers, the frowns
The Plurkage with the verbs all pasted on

MEN’S CHORUS:
The re-Plurks and the new Plurks and the old

WOMEN’S CHORUS:
The Plurkage you posted was so bold

ALL:
There’s no business like Plurk business
If you tell me that it’s so
Plurking with the country is so thrilling
Typing out in fun each Plurking night
Plurking as you watch the timeline filling
And see your Plurking up there in the lights

There’s no people like Plurk people
They smile when they are low
Even with a Plurky that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn’t trade it for a sack o’ gold
Let’s go on with the Plurk
Let’s go on with the Plurk!
The Plurk!
The Plurk!

It’s going to be another emergency PlurkCast. We’re getting pretty good at those! Eric is very busy keeping up with his groundswell movement, and Bloggeries is still embroiled in his move. DebInDenver will join me as a co-host, and thoughtwrong has confirmed that he will do the same. Here is the information for participating in today’s show:

To get to the TalkShoe page: click here. There will be a “live” link just before show time.

To call in, dial (724) 444-7444 and input Call ID 23141.

Sorry for the short notice, but with help from all you great Plurkers, we’ll have another good show! We want to talk about at least the following:

Yesterdays Maintenance

Plurkshops

MyPleeps.com

Monetizing Plurk

Plurking Your Butts Off

You may have missed it, with all of the hubbub of Plurk, but there is a new group operating in the Plurkosphere. It is Plurking Our Butts Off, and it is the brainchild of @NotAMeanGirl, with a lot of help from her friends, especially @dotlizard. It’s a support group for weight loss, and it shows just how great and useful Plurk can be. I just love it when way cool Plurkers come up with way cool ideas and can use Plurk to implement them.

@NotAMeanGirl, noticed (as have we all) the gigantic volume of food talk on Plurk. She also noticed that there was a lot of talk about eating and weight issues. Thus was @PlurkingOurButtsOff born. On this Plurk user account, people can add responses throughout the day asking their friends to report their activity levels, what they’ve eaten, what they are struggling with or a call to just give support. Basically they are there for one another, whatever the need. Just add @PlurkingOurButtsOff as your friend. This concept should get a gold star from us all.

For further support activities, @dotlizard has put together a way cool blog at pobo.me, where people can write about the problems that they have with weight, and about issues around weight. Please note that you can register with this site. If you have any questions about pobo.me, you can contact either @NotAMeanGirl, or dotlizard. There are currently 24 contributors and they would welcome more.

I have the following quote, straight from the mouth of the @NotAMeanGirl,: “Both the support group and the community blog are for ANYONE wanting to make ANY KIND of healthy lifestyle changes. We have people involved that want to loose 250 pounds to people that want to gain weight to people that just want to be more fit to people who just plain wanna look good nekkid!” I mean, how way cool is that? They will be posting on a wide variety of subjects, from personal stories, to work-out tips, to recipes, to exercise, to reports on the progress they have made on the goals they have set for themselves.

This is a group of Plurkers that truly impresses me. They are working to solve very tough problems, and they have seen that Plurk and the blogosphere can be put to work to help them. We all need to take their example, and to do something to make positive change happen in our society. Plurk can be a part of that and we should all look at this example and see if we can’t do something this pure and selfless for our fellow Plurkers.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk and I promise never to throw my weight around.