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Plurk sidebar for firefox

For those who are plurking out there, this plurk mobile sidebar makes it easier to have a conversation. I find it interesting that some are just getting used to twitter, however, plurk has the benefit of microconversations. Twitter is just one huge conversation! I enjoy both for different reasons. Somehow plurk feels a little more intimate!

I have kicked off the first "Plurknovela" a collective digital story told by Plurkers around the world. Wanna join in the fun? Great for language students creating microblogged fiction on the fly!

Plurk novellas are emerging -- this is very cool. This could be used in writing. You can see how threaded microblogging is DIFFERENT from twitter. I think there is room for both.

Plurk novells are emerging. This is cool. You can see how threaded microblogging is DIFFERENT from twitter. I think there is room for both.

Where to get invite codes from pingfm

You can find the most recent "beta codes" from pingfm on their twitter statuses. This is how I got in.

REflections comparing plurk to twitter.

I asked the "plurkosphere" to reflect on twitter and plurk -- this is their response.

Hashtag page for necc -- one of the tags that may be used.

For those of you who don't twitter but would like to follow what twitterers are saying about NECC -- this is one of the hashtags that may be used. To make this work for you, you must be following @hashtags and then use #necc in your title -- I like it sans date, but am finding some people using #necc08 and #necc2008. I'll probably use #necc to save tweetspace.

Great resource for all things Twitter

Twiggit lets you take things you've submitted to digg and send them to twitter.

So, you want to understand twitter hashtags (when people use the # in front of letters) - this video from Mike Wesley might help.

comic on twitter

Blog ~ Technology and Social Studies.  History & Social Studies Resources and popular Twitter hashtags.

Make a 12 second video and post it directly to Twitter. VERY cool!

Saw this mentioned in one of the video tutorials that someone else had pointed to. If you use Tweetdeck you can click the number 12 in the tools at the top and, if you've got a 12second account, you can make a 12 second video of yourself or, if you've got camtwist or similar prpogram, your desktop, and it posts directy to either twitter of Facebook! Now THAT is very cool!

Create or join a twitter group!

The Best Twitterers For Sharing Resource Links

What are people in ELT twittering about? Is it useful to me and/or my learners...?

Neat twitter visualization site

Create a "pretty" stream of tweets from a hashtag, user, or twitter search. A few animation selections give it some variety, but keep things simple. Might be a nice tool for displaying a visually appealing self-updating stream of tweets for an event.

To the Internet hipsters who discovered Twitter in 2006, Oprah's inaugural tweet - FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY, she typed - was the end of the era, the shark jump. But that's like saying the Beatles were over after they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."\nTwittermania has only begun. In the days after Oprah's show, Twitter's traffic growth is accelerating. The ratings service HitWise now ranks twitter.com as America's No. 38 Web site. It's about to rocket past CNN and Wells Fargo.

Search Twitter and Google for resources

This is GREAT for showing off twitter to friends, if nothing else! Watch it plot the icons of your friends on a google map as they tweet.

plots the locations fo your twitter friends as they tweet

Net neutrality is an important issue being addressed by the US government right now to prevent companies from sort of creating their own version of the Internet. These rules are supposed to keep things "open." I'm also sending these to my digiteen students (you can follow digiteen at http://www.twitter.com/digiteen) and Flat Classroom students (http://www.twitter.com/flatclassroom) for work on their project.