Comments on: Micro-blogging Olympics Day Three

By: Boost your Micro-blogging Arsenal with These Twitter Apps | Jason Boom

Boost your Micro-blogging Arsenal with These Twitter Apps | Jason Boom — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:06:58 +0000

[...] These Twitter Apps Written by Jason Boom on August 15, 2008 – 5:06 pm I’m running the Micro-blogging Olympics, which is really just an experiment with three separate micro-blogging services. The Twitter [...]

By: Are You Using Olympic Marketing? | the Social Arrow

Are You Using Olympic Marketing? | the Social Arrow — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:57:40 +0000

[...] found a great example of this over at Jason Boom’s Blog. He’s holding the “Micro-Blogging Olympics” and currently is on day four of this idea I believe. I hooked up with him on Plurk myself [...]

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:41:22 +0000

Hey Will…I’ve loved the Olympics so far. It surprises me every time the Olympics are on how much I watch — gymnastics, badminton, volleyball, etc.

The Karma effect may motivate a little, but I think more than that its an indicator to people we don’t know just how much we interact on there. Someone with a 4 karma won’t get noticed like the guy with 60. And, yes, very hard to hold conversation on Twitter. I’ve done it but its much easier on plurk.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:03:40 +0000

Nice post. I've been following the Olympics while in lab, mostly via news and Plurk/Twitter. A little bit of YouTube here and there, but I mostly wait to watch the torrents/streaming when I get home. I'm not too big into the Karma effect on Plurk; I suppose it helps, since it motivates people to use the service more, and thus drives more traffic, but I don't think that it motivates me much. I still prefer Twitter, but it's harder to hold much of a conversation there. Wills last blog post..Pictoral Tour of the Opening Ceremony