Archive for the plurk Tag

1000 things I’ve learned about blogging

To mark 1000 posts on this blog, I thought I’d reflect on what I’ve learned since post #1. UPDATE: Now available in German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Portuguese. UPDATE 2: I’ll be posting further ’1000 things’ via Twitter – you can find them with this search or this RSS feed.

Patterns for designing a reputation system

Yahoo! have released a family of Reputation patterns: “They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.” Why is this important? The patterns are a wonderful resource for any news organisation looking to plan a community element in which
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Plurk to add 15 new verb options

To those who haven’t been caught up in the fuss, Plurk is a new microblogging service and rival to Twitter. Users are invited to post about what they’re doing using one of 15 verb prefixes, including ‘loves’, ‘is’, ‘thinks’ and ‘shares’. Indeed, it has found itself so successful among disenchanted Twitterati that Plurk has decided to introduce 15 new verb
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