Comments on: Map of the EduPlurkiverse

By: Alison Saylor

Alison Saylor — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:06:00 +0000

My only irritation with plurk or twitter is the amount of day to day stuff on them. Sorry but I just don’t care if you are doing laundry or drinking wine or going to the zoo. I do these things too. I have a life. I don’t need to live vicariously through a popular knitter.

What I want is thoughts and ideas, links to articles, analysis, questions. If I could find a tool like this, I’d be in heaven!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:07:11 +0000

Three weeks ago, I would have agreed with you. Now I couldn’t disagree more. It could be because of you’re currently following/friending, but I find much richer conversations happening on Plurk now than on Twitter.

Another possible cause could be that on Twitter it’s easier to gloss over the ‘fluffy’ stuff, sort of a trained visual filter that you apply without realizing it.

Considering the number of people on Plurk versus on Twitter, I think there’s a much higher percentage of relevant resources there.

But, that being said, it’s still an individual choice. Some like Chocolate, others like Avacado

By: Cory Plough

Cory Plough — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:29:48 +0000

I agree that its easy to use Plurk for conversations. My biggest issue is that its too easy to use for conversations. Seems like most of the time Im on there a lot of the network is wrapped up in basic socializing where as when I get on Twitter, am likely to see more resources, tools, pro development opportunities, and other learning experiences come through the wire. There is definitely a use for both, but wouldn’t exactly call Plurk a PLN just yet.

By: Skip Zalneraitis

Skip Zalneraitis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:38:30 +0000

Thanks, Steve. I may be somewhere off the coast of New England, but, close enough.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Makes sense, but I think most people try to shoehorn conversations in to Twitter, mostly because of the common idea that “That’s where people are.”

Heh, maybe I should start conversations on Plurk and then start linking to them in Twitter

Anyway, thanks as always for a thought provoking reply.

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:14:03 +0000

My observations and experience with Plurk suggest it’s much more about conversations than twitter. Twitter is about presence. Not that one is better but these are distinctly different in my view.
I’ve always considered blogs as the conversation space since it does not limit discussion to 140. I think many of the avid plurk uses like it because it may give them a more instance audience than plugging away at a blog.

I don’t twitter necessarily for conversations and actually recognize it does a lousy job of that. That’s why I love people to tweet new blog posts where real and rich conversations can occur.

I’ve never thought of twitter as a microblogging platform since my bias is that blogs are for conversation. This is what makes Plurk different. Yet for me, I’m not sure it’s needed.

By: mwright103

mwright103 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:44:04 +0000

Map of the EduPlurkiverse /Teach42/ – Are you on it yet? If you’re using Plurk already, go add yourself by … http://tinyurl.com/6jhuf3