There will be a PlurkTalk webcast tonight, as has become usual for Wednesdays.  ThoughtWrong and I will be co-hosting the show, continuing our partnership in the area of Plurk webcasts. We are each others co-hosts on my Wednesday show and his Friday show. We hope that andex makes it back from class in time for the show, too. Tonight’s show will be as free-form as I can make it, just because I like it that way.  The Friday shows are a little more programmed, because ThoughtWrong likes it that way. Details for tonight’s show:

Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 8:00 pm Central Time
URL: http://www.stickam.com/plurktalk

You can watch and or listen just by going to that address. To participate, audio or video, you will have to join Stickam and friend user plurktalk. The Stickam system is sometimes slow in processing friend requests, so try to do this early. We will do a couple of announcements of the show today on Plurk. We will also use Plurk to ask for the topics you would like to see discussed during this show. If you miss those and want to see a particular topic discussed, please leave it as a comment to this post.

Sorry, I did not get the tutorial for joining Stickam and getting to the show, despite all the help. It’s been a brutal week. Next week, I hope. The thing to remember, once you have joined and gone to the page, you need to click on the video to join chat or the conversation…

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk and I look forward to seeing you tonight.

There will be a PlurkTalk webcast tonight, as has become usual for Wednesdays.  ThoughtWrong and I will be co-hosting the show, continuing our partnership in the area of Plurk webcasts. We are each others co-hosts on my Wednesday show and his Friday show. We hope that andex makes it back from class in time for the show, too. Tonight’s show will be as free-form as I can make it, just because I like it that way.  The Friday shows are a little more programmed, because ThoughtWrong likes it that way. Details for tonight’s show:

Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8:00 pm Central Time
URL: http://www.stickam.com/plurktalk

You can watch and or listen just by going to that address. To participate, audio or video, you will have to join Stickam and friend user plurktalk. The Stickam system is sometimes slow in processing friend requests, so try to do this early. We will do a couple of announcements of the show today on Plurk. We will also use Plurk to ask for the topics you would like to see discussed during this show. If you miss those and want to see a particular topic discussed, please leave it as a comment to this post.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk and I look forward to seeing you tonight.

It is fascinating to watch the shifting sands of Plurk. Like any group of people, the Pluckiverse is plastic, in that it constantly ebbs and flows. Just as any living thing does, it evolves. People come and go, perhaps not liking something about the site, perhaps being more into announcements than conversation, or perhaps just not prepared for our ethos. Plurk is not for everybody, as failure by some of the lights of social media has shown. For one thing, it takes some work and some time, and a lot of people are not willing to invest either.

Often, the people that stay with Plurk drift from one group of primary Plurk friends to another. Some Plurkers change the frequency of their visits, or how long they stay each time. Others move from the public timeline to their own private timeline, splurking more than they plurk. Some seem to have said whatever they had to say, and spend more time lurking that plurking.

Old alliances drift apart, while new alliances are formed. New people enter the scene, and are added to timelines that are already full, forcing changes. “Real life” changes require changes in people’s behavior, desire, and availability to plurk. Plurkers are not two-dimensional creatures; they are 3D people with 3D lives with issues and circumstances that drive change both on and off line.

None of this is either good or bad. It just exists. I have been involved in all of these scenarios at one time or another, and usually several of them at a time. Do not despair. Change in your personal environment is good; embrace it. Change drives growth. Growth is good.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk. Feel free to change with me.

There will be a PlurkTalk webcast this evening, as has become usual for Wednesdays. This will be the first night that ThoughtWrong and I will be co-hosting the show, inaugurating a new partnership in the area of Plurk webcasts. We will be each others co-hosts on my Wednesday show and his Friday show. Although we agree on many things Plurk, we seem to get to our decisions by different paths, and that makes for interesting conversation. We think this merger will bring positive things to our coverage of Plurk and Plurkers. We know it will be way fun. Details for tonight’s show:

Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 8:00 pm Central Time
URL: http://www.stickam.com/plurktalk

You can watch and or listen just by going to that address. To participate, audio or video, you will have to join Stickam and friend user plurktalk. We hope Stickam cooperates better this time than it did last week. The Stickam system is sometimes slow in processing friend requests, so try to do this early. We will do a couple of announcements of the show today on Plurk. We will also use Plurk to ask for the topics you would like to see discussed during this show. If you miss those and want to see a particular topic discussed, please leave it as a comment to this post.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk and I look forward to seeing you tonight.

Plurk is a place of many phenomena. I tend to find many of them fascinating. It is, after all, a place of people and people are as frangible as it gets. So the occurrences on Plurk tend to be incredibly diverse. The Phenomena of the Day today is Conversations You Probably Should Not Be In. Sometimes you click on a thread and immediately begin to back away. Sometimes you don’t notice right away, and type in a response before thinking “Oops” and backing out of the thread. Sometimes you’re actually involved in the thread, then it turns left and you just wander quietly away.

We have all been there. There are too many of them (and too many kinds) to make it a rare occurrence. There is the TMI Plurk, usually containing two people talking about something that should probably be private, but isn’t. Often, the original Plurk is something safe and /or innocuous (or you probably wouldn’t click on it) but since that original Plurk, the subject matter has radically changed and after you see that, you don’t say a word. You just leave. Or, if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool voyeur, you can stay and quietly listen.

There are those Plurks that are really there just for the benefit of a few friends. It’s fine if you type something there, but it won’t do any good; none of them are going to answer you anyway. They are just there to talk among themselves. Until you think about it, it seems sort of rude. But if you walk up to a group of people at a party that are obviously in deep conversation amongst themselves and say, “Hi, I’m Glosso the Clown!” the same sort of thing is going to happen. You have probably been one of a group of people like that yourself. Again, just back away quietly.

Then there is the thread that starts out to be about, say, the quality of the coffee at work. You have something to say about that, so you respond, and the conversation continues. Maybe two or three times. Not riveting, but worthwhile. After one response, you cruise back through the timeline, come back to the coffee Plurk, and find that while you were gone is has somehow turned into a discussion about advanced platelet therapy in newts. It’s not likely to revert back to the original subject. Yep. Just back right on out of there.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk, and I have probably been on all sides of all of the above.

Well, the first PlurkTalk show came off all right so we have decided to keep doing them. That was a joke. Sort of. We had a great deal of fun at the last show and once again learned some things about some of our fellow plurkers. We also managed to have interesting discussions on air and in the chat room about a dozen or so Plurk-related subjects. We will to do very much the same again this week with a slightly different cast and a slightly different set of topics. Details for this show:

Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 8:00 pm Central Time
URL: http://www.stickam.com/plurktalk

You can watch and or listen just by going to that address. To participate, audio or video, you will have to join Stickam and friend user plurktalk. The Stickam system was REALLY slow in processing friend requests last week, with some taking as long as 40 minutes, so try to do this early. We will do a couple of announcements of the show today on Plurk. Somebody said I did too many last week, so I won’t do that again. We will also use Plurk to ask for the topics you would like to see discussed during this show. If you miss those and want to see a particular topic discussed, please leave it as a comment to this post.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk and I look forward to seeing you tonight.