Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Blogshares

I have been participating in the Hollywood Stock Exchange for quite a while now. I find it's fun and forces me to keep a keen eye on the film industry. I think I've been actively trading for almost a year now. So I understand the idea behind "fantasy" markets.

And then I found this: Blogshares.

While doing publicity and marketing for This Divided State I have to look it up on Google everyday and see if there are any new links, reviews, articles, etc. that I need to know about so that I can put them here. And this one threw me for a loop. It seems as though there are people that buy and sell fantasy shares in blogs. I guess that's not so crazy, but I have to imagine that the "blogosphere" (lord, I hate, hate, hate that word) is way bigger than the Hollywood machine. And I can understand how you can assign value to movies, you have boxoffice. But do they track blog links and hits? I should investigate more...
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, I joined up about two weeks ago and I'm hooked. I gotta tell you it threw me for a loop too when I found my blog on there! But it's fun. Frighteningly complex, but fun.

Btw, if you decide to join up, please join through here:

http://blogshares.com/?referer=33509

5:12 PM
y-intercept said...

Yes, that looks like a fun game. So I decided to join. It took awhile to figure out how to buy shares.

Anyway, now that I am one of the joint owners of your site, I am wondering how much control I will have over the content. I want to turn my investment turn into a major multinational empire.

As a share holder of "ThisDividedState", I would like to see more sex. Your site seems to be about silly looking men who aren't good at communicating their ideas.

I would like to see a bunch of scantily clad babes. Gearing your site to the 13-20 demographics would do wonders for the inbound links.

So, get back to work. You need to make cyber bucks for the cyber ruling class.

5:48 PM
Unknown said...

Well, there's the babes. Let's start with an inbound link from the y-intercept.

5:58 PM
y-intercept said...

You know perfectly well that, if I linked to your site on the the same day I bought your stock, that I could be accused of insider trading, stock manipulation, conspiracy or worse. I could have my cyber account closed, have my cyber earnings confiscated by the SEC or, even worse, be thrown into cyber prison!!!!!!

I could see myself doing time in some crafters forum crocheting doilies with Martha Stewart!

The hot babe on the front page looks great.

7:39 PM

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