Comments on: Take Stock in Weblogs

Take Stock in Weblogs

Argyle — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:07:39 -0800

- Blogshares is a web-based simulation of stock market where the commodity is weblog linkage. Currently, Metafilter is worth $27774.44. What's your weblog worth?

By: Argyle

Argyle — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:08:51 -0800

To answer my own question, my weblog is worth $1402.26 Who can beat me?

By: RJ Reynolds

RJ Reynolds — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:32:32 -0800

This scares me more than the stock market (where evidently I've lost all my real money), and I'd gladly cash out my alleged blog-worth of $7312.40 and head to Prada.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:36:13 -0800

$4,110 and change... My advice is for all you MeFi-ers to BUY NOW your VERY OWN SHARE of "Better Living Through Blogging" at the UNBELIEVABLY LOW LOW PRICE of only SEVENTY CENTS PER SHARE! HURRY! BEFORE YOU'RE LEFT ON THE GROUND FLOOR! This doesn't count as a self-link, does it...?

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:38:07 -0800

it's not very comprehensive and there doesn't seem to be a way to add weblogs without registering yourself.

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:42:40 -0800

$ 75.94 - I guess I'm not as cool as the cool kids. I'm with davemsc - if you want a share of middle-20's angst with a splash of liberalism, wait until the IPO and get yourself some Grubbykid! It is the next biggest thing since WebVan. and yes I do feel a bit dirty self-linking, thank you very much

By: eilatan

eilatan — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:51:51 -0800

I saw this a few days ago and decided it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever seen. I mean, really, what's the point? Seems to me that a lot of people start blogs not because it's a worthwhile endeavor in and of itself, but because they like feeling that they're popular because so many people link to them. This is just another way to track that popularity.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:55:28 -0800

eilatan: they like feeling that they're popular because so many people link to them What's your point? :-) Sure, in the "big picture" it's rather pointless, but it's a fun way to track blogs -- your own, your friends, your enemies, etc. Quantifying "popularity" is just harmless fun, and even if it's not 100% accurate...so what?

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:05:10 -0800

yet another indication that the general weblogging public is comprised mainly of people with nothing better to do.

By: hilatron

hilatron — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:05:13 -0800

I'm worth $796.58. And I don't feel dirty because I am a shameless link-whore already. So there.

By: ilsa

ilsa — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:50:22 -0800

Wow. According to this, Slashdot is worth a mere $ 16152.37. Wil Wheaton's site is worth $ 13324.03. Do you really get $3k more value out of /.? And is Mefi really worth 2x Wheaton?

By: eilatan

eilatan — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:52:40 -0800

My point, davidmsc, is that some individuals seem to get so caught up in tracking this sort of popularity that it becomes one big circle-jerk. It's not particularly interesting if you're not in the circle, and perhaps that's the point.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:28:15 -0800

Ha Ha! I knew I was smart when I bought MetaFilter last night. I knew someone would post this, and the price would jump.... Day trading, here I come...

By: jess

jess — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:43:15 -0800

Remember when weblogs used to be (mostly) about creative endeavour and personal communication? I'm just so glad we can each have an imaginary capitalist value for our work now!

By: ajr

ajr — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:22:07 -0800

Beware, the market is subject to the Blogshares Act and accepted market practices.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:23:45 -0800

Looks similar to the BBC's Celebdaq.

By: kickerofelves

kickerofelves — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:32:04 -0800

Mine's currently worth $721.16, moving up and down like the NASDAQ...

By: merlinmann

merlinmann — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:32:13 -0800

It is with great personal sadness and disappointment that I restate kung fu grippe's earnings owing to a gross overstatement of value and a somewhat suspicious means of acquiring inbound links. We look forward to your future support with monetizing our exit strategy and trust that the unpleasantness with our accounting firm will not dim your long-term view of kfg as a responsible going-forward operation. Thanks and God bless.

By: machaus

machaus — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:12:37 -0800

This post does not however contain forward looking statements.

By: fujikosmurf

fujikosmurf — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:26:12 -0800

I'm worth $25.46. It's cheap to be unloved.

By: owillis

owillis — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:31:32 -0800

$1369.45. But that's BEFORE we issue false earnings statements, so get in the game NOW! Ken Lay rates it a "buy".

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:08:15 -0800

This is such utter BS. I mean, luxeword.com is worth more than MeFi? A poorly-formatted blog, utterly devoid of comments, that Google can find 0 links to (as opposed to 10,000 for MeFi)? The thing is rigged, friends. (Disclaimer: I did not study their methodology. Maybe they have a systematic and equally applied method to produce their meaningless rankings...)

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:53:53 -0800

"Sorry Unknown Blog" Bummer. But it's not worth knowing about, honestly.

By: RevGreg

RevGreg — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:13:21 -0800

My blog is worth $6560.55 as of today and although fluctuating wildly it's showing a good upward trend.