I love popular culture. The problem is I can’t keep up with all the new trends. However, thanks to David Sarno’s June 4th article in the Los Angeles Times called "Twitter this and Plurk that," at least I am, for the moment, up-to-speed. Sarno has this to say:
Shorting out the buzz-o-meter this week was a site called Plurk.com. Plurk, whose name is a fusion of “people” and “lurk,” is the latest nanoblogging sensation. To nanoblog is to broadcast one-sentence messages to friends and readers, a concept pioneered by the now-famous Twitter: “On my way to work,” writes a Twittering suburbanite. You don’t say? Across the world—and the interest spectrum—an anti-poaching ranger in Kenya reports: “The great migration has started in the Mara; Zebras from the Musiara plains have made the first entrance."
Plurk’s spin on this genre is to make a visual timeline of reports. So now you can see at a glance when your favorite nanobloggers get up in the morning, how much coffee they drink, what they think of last night’s showing of “Sex and the City” and/or the difficulty of disarming illegal wildebeest traps.
So, off I went to visit Plurk.com. I was immediately encouraged by the funky graphics and the jolly welcome:
“Plurk is a place that lets you publish and share your thoughts, emo-ness, #^@%!*%(& and loves.”
Emo-ness? I wanted some of that. Full of hope, I clicked on one of the plurker sites, expecting to find cyber poetry.
“Nicolee is so so hungry and can’t go to dinner because of stupid physics. This summer is going to go by so slowly.”
Poor Nicolee, I so so wanted to feel her pain, but reading about her plight didn't exactly send chills up my spine in the same way as does "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening."
"Karenh is a very good (hypothetical) rogue demon hunter."
Um…okay. A fair attempt at Cyber-Haiku.
"dsyzdek is Home for 5 minutes and the Princess has been in timeout the whole time. And lost her bedtime stories."
"Ode to a Grecian Urn?" I think not.
So, now that you know about Plurking, is it the next "big thing" or should dsyzdek and friends join Princess for a timeout?
Happy Monday!
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p.s. This Saturday, June 28th, I'm going to guest blog on The Lipstick Chronicles. If you're in the neighborhood, please stop by and join the conversation.
...thus proving that anyone might reach out both hands to gather every iota of their deserved instant of fame.
ReplyDeleteSpin, Andy, spin.
Jeff, was that a plurk or a twitter? Just asking.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid that I enjoy being involved far too much to ever...lurk, and I'm afraid my response was more of a titter than a twitter...though perhaps the concept deserves being twitted.
ReplyDeleteWhy else relegate the minutaie of insignificance to infamy?
Ah, that explains it.
ReplyDeleteIt does?
ReplyDeleteNo :O)
ReplyDeleteWell, maybe I was just pluttering, then. Or twirking.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I'd better go back to the corner with Princess.
Thanks, Patty. Have a great day! ;o)
Ditto!
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