It has been interesting to watch the forays into Plurkdom by the famous people of the blogosphere. A few have made it with some success, while others have failed fairly completely, at least so far. You all know who you are, so there is no need to go into the “Who?” question, especially since most [...]

Plurkers talk quite a bit about their “Plurk to response ratios.” That makes sense, because they really are indicative of the way that you are using Plurk and what you are probably getting out of it. If nothing else, it is interesting to see how widely they vary. There is almost certainly no “right” ratio, [...]

So there I was, cruising through the timeline, trying to avoid clicking “Mark all as read” one more time. And what is there, big as you please, but a huge overripe hunk of (im)pure spam! This was not your garden variety, “Could you Digg this?” or “Take a look at my blog…” or “Could you [...]

This column is once again inspired by events. What the heck would we do without events? This time, it was a comment on yesterday’s column by Douglas Karr, a respected internet marketing maven. He is not sure yet about Plurk, because of the lack of a standalone client and integration to other social media sites. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]