Is Plurk the new Twitter?
Plurk.com It is tough to stay open minded about microblogging when I've been "in love" with twitter for so long. When twitter turned off the reply tab for days and just wouldn't respond, we were forced to try something else for NECC and after playing with Pownce and others, lots of plurk-ing emerged. (See the plurk page " who likes to plurk? ") So, after setting up ping.fm to update all of this microblogging sites, I'm warming up a little to plurk. Now, do not expect plurk to be twitter, it is not! It is a hybrid between twitter and discussion threads -- sort of a microdiscussion thread type of approach. To see what I mean, take a look at this " plurk page " that was built when I asked for educators who are plurking to share where they are from. I've done this over and over with twitter and struggled with getting all the information and replies on one page. It was a struggle and all of the code knocked down my rss feed...