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Hahaha, dikit lagi dapet de nama 'Credo'..

My Plurk

I really love the theme of my Plurk page :)
It feels so serene. And that's important because I spend (or waste, depending on how you see it :p) a lot of time looking at it.

I don't know if it's just me, but I think this Plurk thing is a smart product. I reflected it to the (weird urging) feeling of commenting on my friends' Yahoo!Messenger status. My friends' did that a lot too (commenting on others' online status, that is). So, instead of commenting on a real-time status, Plurk creator(s) made it possible for people to comment on a continuum of statuses posted in Plurk. Which make it very attractive (at least for people who'd like to share small things in their life).

I'm kinda annoyed by Plurk too, I guess.. Because it's so easy to post something and get comments on that. However, that makes me even lazier than before to write blog post. Well, they call Plurking as micro-blogging though. They do it for a reason, right?

Twitter is another micro-blogging service. But representation of the posts somehow makes it hard to follow all the posts of your friends because they are pushed on top of each other. I would just say, it's not helping the user.

It's a different case with Plurk. It positions your friends' posts so that you could see them clearly. You can choose to see only your own posts, your responded posts, or even your comment on others' posts. Plurk keeps track of them for you. If your friends trashes you with too many posts, you could simply choose not to follow their Plurk temporarily but stay friends. Ahh, almost forget to mention: we could adorn our post with pics (mostly emoticons. Ahh, and they look great :D) and shares video and links.

With all this, will this micro-blogging change our blogging-behaviour? I think it starts having an effect on me.

Wikipedia Needs Help

I have seen the advertisement (if I could call it that) of Wikipedia indicating it needs some donation to keep going. Like this, "Wikipedia is sustained by people like you. Please donate today."

What I just realized is that they (I refer to those guys behind the curtain off course) provide several alternatives to deliver the message. Like:

Help us provide free content to the world by donating today!

You can support Wikipedia by making a tax-deductible donation.

Help us improve Wikipedia by supporting it financially.

Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running!

Every time you load a Wikipedia page, the sentence is generated (randomly shown, I would say). I think it's neat having this kind of thing. It's not something new, but it's just... nice.
The position of the message is also nice. On the top left with readable small font. The italic style makes it stand out without irritating the eager eye looking for valuable information.

Click the 'donate' links on those messages and you will see a video of Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia explaining the purpose of the free encyclopedia and the needs for donation. (Hey, Indonesia is in the video :D)

Imagine a world
in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
— J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

I hope I help them delivering the message by making this post :D

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Hwahahaha..
Justru dr anak2 IT yang jawabannya malah ga jelas..
Maaf ya Pop..