Plurk, having recently celebrated its 2nd birthday, has opended up its blog to contributions from Plurkers and the blog now has regular posts from Plurkers from around the world. There are posts on a range of topics from the thoughts of a veteran Plurker to grand friendship networks that have developed via Plurk and, something all Plurkers will recognise – recipes!
If you’d like to contribute to the Plurk, visit this post, have a read and submit your thoughts now.
If your contribution is used by Plurk, you will get one of these on your Plurk profile:
Thanks to the wonderful Tamsie, Plurkers have started a new flickr group: Plurk Worldwide Sunset. The slideshow above contains the images from this group so grab a cuppa, enlarge the show to full-screen and sit back and see the beauty of our world.
If you Plurk and flickr and are not yet in this fantastic group, visit Plurk Worldwide Sunset and join – we’d love to have you for our next Worldwide Sunset – date to be determined and will be announced as soon as a decision has been made.
One of the many things I like about Plurk is its user interface – it’s a rather grand , interactive, left-right scrolling timeline that allows user to easily see their own Plurks as well as those of their friends, including an easy way to identify Plurks that have been responded to. I’ve been using Plurk for nigh on eighteen months, having been introduced to it by my online friends that I’ve been in contact with for well over five years.
I’ve tried Twitter -and I still use that for brief contact and posting of links as well as keeping up with various services/organisations that post brief information, often including links – but it’s Plurk that is my preferrred social-networking microblog service. Plurk is easy to use, easy to understand and easy to communicate with. Having used Twitter and having had a go at a mutltitude of microblogging services, Plurk stands out way above the crowd. In short, Plurk rocks.
Like many grand things that rock, it has – unfortunately – been ripped off. Not just by any company – but by Microsoft China. A big corporation ripping off a young startup that is doing amazing work. Surely Microsoft has the resources to do their own work? One would think so – but one would be wrong.
I’ve been thinking about this post for all of this month – one year since I entered this place called Plurk. It’s been an interesting year, catching up with old friends met via other networks and meeting new people many of whom I’m now happy to call plurkfiends and forging new relationships based on learning about and exploring photography.
I first became aware of Plurk via people I’ve known online since 2004 via game called Blog$hares. There’s a graph in this somewhere charting my increased time in Plurk and my decreased time playing with shares based on blog linkage, but I’ll leave that to @billythekid to blog about and your imagination otherwise.
I was on the Gold Coast last year and caught up with @gcgal and @aussiejohn for my first ever Plurkfest and since then I’ve had a visit from @soulcreates here in Darwin. These interactions as well as time spent plurking (and via Plurk, flickring) had me thinking that I’d like to have a larger gathering of those I Plurk with and so suggested a gathering. Plurkfest Oz 2009 will now be happening in November in Adelaide.
Many of my plurkfiends are photographers and/or have a keen interest in photography and I’ve learned much from them over the past year as they also share this mad passion. Some of the grand photographers that I’ve met whilst Plurking that you might want to check out are murfomurf, eztephen, soulcreates, werewegian and claudecf.
Not a lot of content for having thought about it for most of the past month, is it? But that is it – I want to get back to Plurking and flickring – much to amuse myself with. Thanks for dropping by.
You’d probably like to know that this is the (23*3)th post.
Your goal: identify the images used in this panorama.
Your prize: a cloth version of said image at full resolution (ie 6760 x 3380). This will go to the person who identifies the highest number of distinct images. Other prizes may be awarded for originality.
How to enter: leave comments either here or on the flickr page of the above image.
Your deadline: 23:23 on 23 Jun 2009.
Your clue: visit the image on flickr and note that I’ve already documented one image used in the above panorama.
Any more questions? Leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as practical.
One of the joys of social networking is that many of us are connected in multiple ways so we are able to communicate via this blog as well as through Plurk, email and other social networking avenues. With that in mind, we’ve been using Plurk and other avenues to work out which weekend in November would allow as many Plurkfiends as possible to attend the inaugural Plurfkest Oz 2009.
So… enough introduction and to the point – we have decided that the weekend of 20, 21 and 22 November 2009 will be the inaugural event. We’d appreciate if you could leave comments on this post with any ideas that you may have for specific events for the weekend and below you will find other events that are not Plurkfest related that are happening on the same weekend.
Now that we have the dates confirmed, we welcome any suggestions and ideas that you may have that will help to make this an amazing Plurkfest Oz 2009.
We will keep you updated via this blog with detailed information regarding what’s happening where and when – your input into making this a succesful event are essential – so get to Plurking!
