Veteran Plurker @dotlizard has very astutely suggested an addition to my proposed list of sobriquets which could rightfully be applied to Plurk. I have added her suggestion to the original column and will use her words to tell why Plurk also belongs to the category Micro-Blogging. One forgets (at least I did) how quickly Web [...]

It was passably odd this morning to bring up Twitter in Twhirl and find a quotation from myself. My zine co-editor says that I am the most quotable person that she has ever met, but I think she is just being nice to me. There is very little evidence to support her claim. I will [...]

Is “Social Media” the right category in which to place Plurk? How about “Social Networking?” Or maybe “Social Bookmarking.” Any of those could fit the bill, but there is more than a little misunderstanding surrounding the actual meaning of those terms. Before a service such as Plurk can be shoehorned into a category, we need [...]

Because Plurk is wildly popular, there is a lot of talk about what past systems Plurk is similar to. These conversations are especially fun because the builders of Plurk have integrated so many different communications concepts into a single service, making use of the best parts of all of them. It is this integration of [...]

It occurs to me that Karma is going to continue to be a big deal, whether you and I are big Karma fans are not. Society is currently structured in such a way that we have to have a way to keep score in everything we do. For Plurkers, Karma is pretty much all the [...]

I don’t know about you, but I have not yet figured out a way to be on Plurk 24/7. Instead, I sometimes have to work, or sleep, or otherwise have a life. So, very often, when I do get over to Plurk, there are a LOT of plurks waiting for me. Often hundreds and hundreds. [...]