A while back I posted about the micro-blogging website Plurk, because I had starting using it and thought those of you who don’t blog as much would want something small and convenient. Well its rival site Twitter was hacked Monday and a few celebrities were targeted. Why I am writing this was because one person in particular was targeted, President-Elect Barak Obama.

From BBC,

The celebrities, including US CNN broadcaster Rick Sanchez, awoke on Monday morning to find their Twitter accounts – which allows users to post short updates of less than 140 characters – with some bizarre and, in some cases pornographic messages.

The fictional updates included a message from Mr Sanchez saying he would not be in work because he was high on crack, a link to free petrol from Mr Obama and some very personal statistics from Ms Spears.

Though I don’t really use Plurk as much as I did when I started, this goes to show why I chose it over Twitter.

Since I decided to put the Plurk Widget on my site, I thought that I should blog about it as well. Plurk is a place to put your thoughts down, in under 140 characters, about what is on your mind aka microblogging. Another site known for this is Twitter, but this site was brought to my attention first and thus the better of the two, in my opinion. Though it doesn’t seem like much at first, it really isn’t a bad site to just stream bits of your thoughts here and there.

It’s a pretty good alternative to Myspace where you have a blog, which more than likely none of your friends read. Plus, when you sign up, you can either be a fan and view other peoples “plurks” without them having to see yours. If they view your profile, they will be able to see your plurks, and can decide if they want to be friends. Also, the more active you are, the higher your “Karma” goes which allows you to mess with features like display names and such. What ever your put down will be readable by everyone, unless specified private.

As much as I would like to blog about every little thing that goes on in my head, Plurk is nice to dabble a few thoughts here or there without having to write a whole story about it. But don’t worry, I shall continue to blog away when something sparks my interest and feel others should know about it.