Loading ...I first signed up for Plurk because I wanted a nice, easy and quick micro-blogging system that I could install on my blog, and use when I didn’t have time to write a full blog-post.
Then Mojo signed up.
It turns out Plurk is much more than micro-blogging. It also makes a great instant messenger. Unlike most instant messengers, it doesn’t trap you in a conversation. I log on and… ooo, there’s a plurk from Mojo, and I reply to it. When he gets back from his meeting, he replies back.
We talk about food a lot. BBQ, the nutritional superiority of maple syrup and sugar (which comes from a bamboo-like plant, and therefore must be healthy), and oh… Octo Pie.
We talk about sleep, and our lack of it. And because of our lack of sleep, our conversations often take a turn for the surreal.
Oh, and we talk about you, so if you want to know what we’re saying about you, I guess you’d better join us.
Plurk combines the best elements of instant messaging, text messaging, and forums. But it’s less restrictive than IMing, less fiddly than text, and more fluid than forums. And its more versatile than any of these things.
Plurk has the potential to be a great facilitator of our writing weekends, because it’s more instantaneous and streamlined than email.
Plurks, threads and conversations can be public, private, or restricted to a group of people (like a writing group?). And you can also read plurks by other people, though they aren’t nearly as interesting as me an’ Mojo. (mmmm…. Octo Pie).
And plurk is working hard to bring more features to their product.
I usually don’t wax recommendy over stuff, but after using Plurk for a while with Mojo, I can see a lot of potential in it. You can try it out here, or you can go through Mojo’s link, if he posts it. Mojo? Anything to add?
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I will add that it is Mojo’s fault that I am not plurking yet. He wants to plurk me through his plurk so he will get Karma points, but it hasn’t worked out yet. So I sit plurkless just to improve Mojo’s karma.
I have to say I felt like Henrietta Pussycat or a Smurf in that last post.
And although Mojo loves cats, he hates Henrietta Pussycat. Does that detract from his karma points?
Meow meow meow plurk meow Smurf.
Okay, so I thought you weren’t plurking because of work and being so busy, which is forgivable. But not plurking because of Mojo’s karma? I’m not sure what to think of that.
Oh, you are in BIG trouble for mentioning that damned puppet cat! That thing is a great offense to those of us who love actual cats, you know the ones who do NOT say “Meow meow meow meow meow…” or whateverthehell she’s saying. *grumble, grumble*
But I digress. Plurk is awesome! At first, I wasn’t so sure about it, as I wondered if it would be a time vacuum. Alas, Che is totally correct: It has all the benefits of micro-blogging and IM without many of the more odious constraints. It’s fun and we can discuss the health benefits of maple syrup, octo pie, and handfulls of pills, all in near-real time.
That’s not to say that SP isn’t also awesome, particularly for longer posts. Plurk surely could not handle Rob’s horrorscopes! I’m not sure I can… He always wants to get the Saj’s kitless!
To be sure, I’m also plurkless because of work — the reason that I haven’t posted on SP in a while.
But it is Mojo’s karma that keeps my completely plurkfree.
You can’t even read the reponses to your plurks unless you plurk in.
R, you have been invited to Plurk, so you’ll have to get your plurking plurk signed up! Just check your OTHER email…
OTHER email. How mysterious.
Come to Plurkistan, Richard. Join us.
*whispered*
join us
join us
join us
join us
join us
resistance is futile
you will be assimilated
hopefully, you will be assimilated in a way that is not boring, unlike most Star Trek episodes
just sayin’
Okay, okay. I plurk.
But my computer at work doesn’t like the plurking.
What else is new?
Your computer at work doesn’t like to work, which only fits in with the rest of the crowd there. :P
ha ha! You are so right, Mojo.
Yes. Yes I am.
i am deeply skeptical that you two are, in fact, talking about me over there in plurkistan.
i will, however, put it on my list.