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. [...]
Karma is neither good nor bad. Like air, it just is. And, like sour pickles, some people like it and some people don’t. ( for the record, topsurf does not like sour pickles ) Karma is also like the weather and food. Absolutely everybody talks about it, absolutely all the time. BigBoss has noticed that [...]
Imagine my surprise when I jumped into Plurk for a few minutes this morning to take a break from work and found a Plurker name Plurkable attacking me for my choice of themes for this blog! Heck, I’ve been using this theme since February on StumbleBlogger.com and I really like it. My first reaction was [...]
When we received the wonders of Plurk, we also received the perils and rigors of Karma. I have mixed feelings about this “feature.” The main intent of Karma, of course, is to have you bring your friends flocking to Plurk, and to keep you using the service 24 hours a day. This means, if nothing [...]
