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Some of the people I work with would say I may have a slightly competitive nature. Some of the peop [...]…

By: TClarke

TClarke — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:39:31 +0000

I’m really appreciating how I can “surf” Plurk more efficiently than attempting to surf Twitter. You know I had not-so-nice names for Twitter. It frustrated me more than anything.

Plurk is well-organized and appeals to my Felix-like tendencies.

By: Rick Weinberg

Rick Weinberg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:37:47 +0000

Tim…If Plurk has done just one thing, get you to blog again then I am sold too. I must say that I do like how the conversations are “nested” so that I can check out what was said and what somewhat valuable information was added to the conversation. I am sure I will get more value out of the conversation if I ask more insightful questions or make more intelligent plurks. I am just on the cusp of plurk, once and a while sticking my toes into the pool. I have not gone in much farther at this point.

By: TClarke

TClarke — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:59:54 +0000

I’m actually laughing at Cindy and Mark’s comments right now. Funny. Somehow I knew I’d provoke a response.

Mark, there are two things I wish Plurk had:
1. Aggregator for @tclarkeee posts… like an inbox.
2. A way to mark plurk conversations as favorites.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:22:17 +0000

Competitive? YOU? Certainly you don’t mean that someone who happens to be driving a lead car, considers themselves winning, as competitive… I’m sorry to say that my Plurking is getting off to a slow start. It was blocked at my school, and my internet was down off and on over the weekend. I did deliver some Karma to Mr. Carls by responding to his plurk plead and not yours. His was first and fair is fair – he won by being first. I do hope your competitive nature remains as even tempered as it is now…at least how you display it to the world.

By: Mark Carls

Mark Carls — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:37:32 +0000

I would personally vouch for Tim’s ’somewhat’ competitive spirit, but it is in a good and sometimes joking way. Of course, against me, you always WIN!
It is nice to have that carrot of Karma dangled in front of you, I haven’t cared too much, but after a night like last night where I made many Plurks, I checked first thing to see how much my Karma had gone up……Oh yeah, did I say I’ve NEVER won?…….because I’m winning right now on Karma!
Your last paragraph though is why I like Plurk. The ability to follow conversations because they are clustered together. This gets away from the linear form of Twitter, where, if someone didn’t reply (@mcarls) to me, I would go back page after page to see what I missed in conversations that are scattered throughout. Plurk has my vote and my Twitter network thus far is also making the move over.
Another great blog post.