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So what's the status of the Ode's plurk addin? Here's the idea...

There are two ways to specify that a post should be treated specially and added as a plurk.

You can create the post in a category called plurk. This category can be anywhere in your blog (i.e. under any other category). Furthermore you can create subdirectories under these plurk directories. All posts in a plurk category are automatically plurked.

Alternatively, you can tag any post you want to have posted to plurk.

When you plurk a post it is automatically tagged to indicate that it has been plurked to prevent adding the same post twice. These tags include the plurk id so they can always be matched to a specific message at plurk.com.

Does that make sense? Any questions?

I have some clean up left to do and there's a lot that can't be done. For example:

It might be nice to be able to add a post as a response to another plurk.

Also, it seems to me that there should be some way to create posts on an Ode blog automatically from plurks.

These things won't be difficult to do if I can work out just how I want it to work.

Lastly, at the moment adding to plurk from Ode is the simplest thing to do because it means first going through the bother of creating the weblog post (which is more involved than what you have to do at plurk.com) and then authenticating to the blog to post. It shouldn't be any more work to plurk from Ode than plurk.com. I'm working on eliminating much of the overhead from the process.

Stay tuned.