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Chris Brogan posted a message
“I posted a comment on Plurk that I didn't like it, didn't get it. They got all mad that I didn't reply to their "conversation." Is every statement a conversation? Um, no.”
August 3 at 4:41 pm - Link
I'm not loving Plurk: the search is inadequate at best. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Good point Chris. Plurk is a valuable microblog (microforum) yet does have a certain drama factor that's impossible to dismiss. - "Czar" DJ Peterman
I just don't like the headless avatars. FREAK ME OUT. - Eric Schlissel via twhirl
those headless critters do me in! and don't get me started on that stupid karma concept...lameO. I do like the visual timeline, but it's too cluttered if you follow more than 100 people... FAIL - Susan Beebe
Leo Laporte has been having the same problem on his forums. Seems like you are not allowed to have personal views these days. It also seems like now, when I start yelling at the brick wall, the brick wall starts yelling back...crazy man, just crazy. - Bob Blunk
Every statement is not an invitation to converse, but when the statement is about not liking where you are, it's not surprising that you got a response. Sticking to meal reports would be safer! - Linda Mills
I think Plurk responses are similar to FF comments; people are having a conversation about what you posted, and there is a certain expectation that you're aware that people can and do reply.. Except on Plurk, you have the option to turn off replies on a per-message basis. So if you want to make a statement that isn't a conversation, you have a few choices: Twitter, Plurk with replies turned off, a blog with comments turned off, et cetera. - Teel McClanahan III
@Linda, exactly. Chris, with all due respect, you can't come onto plurk - say "you're sorry, you don't like it" (or something to that effect) as your plurk - and then not expect to get a reaction/comments. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Man, it so so good to see some people sticking up for the coolness of aspects of plurk. It feels like to a certain degree - Plurk has been cool to dislike because a lot of the 'web celebs' have slated it. - Zee from WeDoCreative
But here's one for the crowd. What if I don't like it? I'm supposed to be all kool-aid about it? You know, it's very likely that we will find things in the social media universe we don't like. Want another? Second Life. Great if you like it. Just nothing going on there for me. I don't mind that people want to explain why it's great. I just don't chose to go for it. - Chris Brogan
i'm pretty sure you'd get that reaction from the Twitter loyalists too. Or any service with a loyal following for that matter. So you don't get it. Isn't that what most people said about twitter at first? I know i did, and the same with Plurk. You may not have used the service enough to really know it's value. Or maybe you did, and just don't like it. fair enough. But you can't come on there, say you don't like it, an expect everyone to be hunky dory with that. They're not hating on you, just questioning. - Chris Cavs
i have found plurk to be too clunky for my taste. I'm still giving it an honest effort. It's just not a format that resonates with me yet. - Richie Escovedo
I opened a Plurk account, tried it out, but could never really get the hang of it. I earned enough karma to re-design my page, which is cool, but I still do not have the time nor patience to familiarize myself with it. Bah! That being said, I'll still mess around with it from time to time. Overall, not my social hub of choice. - David
i think plurk is a great interface...looking to solve a different problem than microblogging. for example, plurk as a team project management tool could be interesting. everything doesn't have to become the next twitter. - .LAG
See, and I like Plurk, but I think that its usefulness depends a lot on who you're friends with there. For me, Plurk solves a lot of the problems I have with Twitter (easy following of conversations, being able to walk away and easily see what you missed). Twitter feels very needy to me, if I'm not looking at it constantly I'm missing the conversation. A lot of the people I liked talking to on Twitter didn't join/get Plurk, so it feels like a tug of war. - Teel McClanahan III
Hmm... let me put that another way: For me, What's good about Twitter is the people that use it, forcing information through the limited tool it provides, and what's good about Plurk is the tool itself, the way it allows me to connect and communicate with people easily. @Chris, I didn't see your Plurk or the conversation that followed directly, but this statement and your blog post give the impression you *don't want* conversation/comments/responses. - Teel McClanahan III
FUBAR! Do not like it? Not happy? Take a walk! No one is here to please and entertain you! - Igor The Troll
But if you consider your followers as part of your entourage you maybe forced to feed them! I guess depends on your style! - Igor The Troll
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August 1 at 1:42 pm - Link
I also read Lissa Warren's entire post, but didn't want to share it because I felt that implied I agreed with it - I don't, and this article comes very close to why. I think that the people who share Lissa's opinion are looking for something that might better be called "Literary Criticism" than "book reviews," a much more humble term - and I think the more humble term (and review) is what most people are looking for. It's only the elite and elitist who look for that (I say boring) level of refined criticism in a book review. - Teel McClanahan III
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July 30 at 11:12 pm - Link
This one, I think, will be one of the ones that sticks, that haunts. Its words effect me, which I like, even though I'm not sure I like the effect they evoke; I like being effected. - Teel McClanahan III
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July 28 at 12:44 pm - Link
Do passport cards work the same way as traditional passports? No. Cheaper passport cards can only be used for land and sea travel between the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. For any air travel outside of the U.S., you need a traditional passport. - Teel McClanahan III
Is it easier to get a passport card than a traditional passport? Alas, no. The application process for the cards is the same as it is for traditional passports. With both, if you're eligible to mail in the application, you'll save the potential hassle of waiting in line at the post office or courthouse. Royster says that the cards will eventually have the same turnaround time as traditional passports (currently, about four weeks). But don't expect a four-week turnaround this summer: The State Department began accepting applications, first come, first served, for the cards in February and received more than 350,000 requests. It has mailed out 7,600 cards and expects to have the rest of the preorders sent out by the end of September. If you applied for a passport card today, the earliest you could expect to receive one is after the initial 350,000 orders are filled. - Teel McClanahan III
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Shawn Farner posted a message on Plurk
“shawnfarner feels like the Karma system is flawed. What if I can't get on Plurk EVERY DAY?”
July 25 at 5:36 am - Link
Yeah, I'm not a fan either. I'm not letting karma control what and when I should post. No more one dimensional conversations and superficial posts. - Hao Chen
I feel like that's the POINT of the karma system: if you're generally on Plurk most days, your karma moves/stays generally high, and if you don't make much use of Plurk, if you regularly go day after day without use, karma goes down. I can tell at a glance whether you use Plurk well or not by looking at your Karma. - Teel McClanahan III
Also: I took a two-week vacation, only plurked on two of those days (we had internet those days), and my karma barely budged. There's a hit for not using, but it takes a LONG time - it's looking for patterns, not punishing for not following imagined rules. - Teel McClanahan III
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Eric Rice posted a message
“My Karma is at 1.95 for plurk. Maybe I can change my profile in like 12 years.”
July 25 at 3:49 pm - Link
I did have an afterthought. If you want to provide limited edition goodies for Karma points, fine. Let's move beyond 'karma is stupid anyway' and play along. Karma for goodies, yes; Karma for basic acct maintenance, absolutely not. You are missing a revenue opportunity and setting up a community to be fake, esp since it's a metric to game. That opens it up for spammers, too. - Eric Rice
I agree I think thesixtyone deals with the idea of karma in a much more coherant fashion, letting you earn things for use not penalizing you for lack of use. - Steve Spalding
Depends on how they calculate Karma - it's supposed to work against spammers. I've found that -if you use Plurk- you have plenty of Karma. And if you don't use plurk, or you spam plurk, you don't. Seems like a good system, to me. - Teel McClanahan III
Right, and I don't have a problem with it for a reward system or whatnot, but for customizing a profile? Come on. That's a premium feature. I seem to recall paying Wordpress for the ability to add custom CSS to wordpress.com... it's a social game-- that's what it will breed. There's not an algorithm to get around human nature. - Eric Rice
I mean, does everyone need a revenue model shoved heartily up their ass, or are we going to cling to the Whuffie ideology all the way to the unemployment line? - Eric Rice
Still can't figure out why to Plurk. Hurts my brain. If you send ten Plurks and add some folks, Karma seems to go up. - Clay Newton
Yeah but you can't do it *too much* ... there's a set of parameters to master. I sound retarded explaining this, all I want to do is update my profile and do a little CSS. Here's their page: nevermind I can't link. Karma can be gained by inviting people (no), updating profile (did it ages ago), uploading pictures, 'having fun on plurk will give you more Karma' - Eric Rice
Clay, it's a twitter clone, like everything else, but it's the principle of it. - Eric Rice
I don't know, but using plurk actively makes it easy to have meaningful communication with people there and build relationships - which I've been more successful at turning into sales than on other social networks so far. Don't care about karma if the basic use of the tool actually works for me. - Teel McClanahan III
Right, Teel, what happens tho is that the presence of it will foster an environment around you that might affect you whether or not you pay attention to it or not. I actually don't care about Karma either (I mean I think it's dumb in general), but it doesn't affect me negatively until now. When it gets in my way. Other than that, I'm ok chillin in an enviro that has the potential to have accelerated superficiality is all. - Eric Rice
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July 22 at 5:17 pm - Link
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I have just learned that people in NYC will pay $15 for a sandwich. This is $6 more than what they would pay for an entire chicken. - James Williams (willia4)
That must be a pretty good sandwich. Have to keep in mind that if I visit NYC, I won't be able to afford to eat. - Teel McClanahan III
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Hao Chen posted a message
“Which has more benefit to you: participating heavily on one social media site or participating a little across multiple sites?”
July 21 at 11:48 am - Link
I like the 80/20 rule. Spend 80% off your time on the network where your audience is the strongest, 20% time on the others. - Hao Chen
I like the 100% rule better. 100% of the time treat people like people, not like an audience. - Robert Seidman
I think concentrating efforts here and participating a little everywhere else has been very beneficial to me. So I guess 80/20 works great. - Rahsheen™
Since I don't consider myself to have an "audience" as such, I just use whatever tools work for me, and that means working tools. ie: Not much Twitter in June. - Teel McClanahan III
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Eric Rice posted a message
“Working on my Flickr presentation. Teaching flickr to a bunch of brand new users on Wednesday night! \o/”
June 2 at 11:46 pm - Link
it's amazing to think there are people who don't yet use flickr - Lynne d Johnson
And, on top of that, web services in general. The presentation after me is about Yahoo Groups. Every time I give a workshop I learn so much, especially if the crowd is younger than me. - Eric Rice
I don't "get" flickr the way other people seem to. Can you explain what I'm missing... Why it's "amazing," and what those people (ie: people like me) are missing? - Teel McClanahan III
Flickr? :D - Mark Forman
i always forget that the lives are early adopters are just that -- early adopters. but i think the use of flckr is much more widespread now. i'd love to see your presentation when finished. can you upload to slideshare? - Lynne d Johnson via Alert Thingy
I have a Flickr account but no longer a pro account. I will not give money to Yahoo. - Gary Wiens
Teel: just a place to post and host your photos where others can publicly or privately see them. It's one of many services out there. This one was one of the first true 'social' successes with everyday people media. My mom learned about my dramatic haircut via flickr. :) - Eric Rice
Lynne hehe what makes you think I'd dare do a slideshow? I'll show flickr, use it, and give others a chance to be hands on right then and there. :) - Eric Rice
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Eric Rice posted a message
“Open thread re: blog comments' relevancy in the ADD^H^H social attention world. (I was doing a demo of a frenzy on Twitter, using the topic of a real issue that's bothering some people, me included.)”
April 2 at 11:16 am - Link
2 issues: it's easier to stir up convo all across the web but not on a blog and also, if we kiss blog comments byebye, maybe that means we can make our sites/blogs more like magazines. There's cred in that to a lot of people NOT of the blogging ilk. So what's the post-blogger era look like, at a place between Old Media and New Media? Enjoy! - Eric Rice
In light of all the posting back and forth about whether people are "parroting" each other last week,: a lot of blog posts today ARE comments re: other people's blog posts. When everyone became a blogger, instead of just commenting in the blog's designated comment area, they commented by making a new post, with a link to the original one. We need a way (much better than trackback) to create/track multi-directional links between these, because this is the "future" (read: present) of blog comments. - Teel McClanahan III
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March 31 at 11:47 am - Link
Whoa 80s/Ferris Bueller flashback! - Robert Seidman
Yello is one of my favorite bands - Steven Hodson
I think clicking this link is giving my napping wife strange dreams. Possibly dreams of Matthew Broderick, but that's strange enough, eh? - Teel McClanahan III
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