Yeah, I know, Plurk has questions-for-Karma spammers. Yes, I also know that Plurk has the occasional person who uses their plurks solely to show us how important (they think) they are. Those people are annoying, but you can find people like that everywhere, on-line or even in that weird real-life place. On Plurk, you can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]