Yesterday’s column explained why Plurk is useful for intelligent discussions and picked out a few of the main reasons. Just to recommend another angle, think of the way forum threads tend to work. Again, they are presented by subject, and all the responses to a specific subject are presented in order underneath  subject header. There is a reason for that. It works. App,net (ADN) is faster-moving than a forum and has a slightly different default format than Plurk. It is … Continue reading →

As one of a distinct minority who feel that Plurk provides a much more human, conversational experience than does Twitter, I tried to distill my feeling in this area down to a brief quotation way back (lol) in 2008. That quotation still holds true: Twitter is for announcements; Plurk is for conversations. I have now been around App.Net for a month or so, having happily paid my way for a year in order to help that growing site along. I … Continue reading →