September 07, 2004

BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links. Little weird. A certain filter of our mutual acquaintence is valued at $46.83 per share; and the current top blog is PersianBlog, valued at $29,329.62 per share (and there's 1051000 of them). In other words,

W. T. F.? MONKEYS.!? rilly tho, what is this?

posted by PF 20 years ago
  • I Don't Know. Do I give A Flying one? (a) No (b) No Votez now, ask me how.
  • I used to be big into this, until I realize that it affected the way that I blogged. My stock is here. The reason PersianShares is so huge is because there's so little of it, and there's no owner to split the shares to lower the price and get more action on it.
  • This was a fun game (last year) until they got away from the stock market simulation and allowed people to use magic tricks and steal one anther's stock. I actually paid for a one-year membership last year. Only a few weeks later, they changed the game around completely. They would not refund my fee. Poopyheads!
  • You all should go and make a run on the monkeyfilter stock (and I'm not just saying that because I own a little, and want to sell it off high :)
  • Also - how does having a membership matter? I just signed up for free.
  • When you have a paid membership, you can have more than 20 transactions a day and the stock cap on each transaction is lifted.
  • I think I may have dabbled in some monkeyfilter shares.
  • Wait wait, people pay for this? *boggles*
  • Pay? Heck no.
  • I don't know enough about the stock market to even try this.
  • I need to sell some shares for more money, because I want to buy more monkeyfilter shares. Do you think it would work to sell them for the $2 more they are now, and then watch the price drop, and buy more?
  • jb, how much money do you want? I have hundreds of millions of blogshares dollars - want some? contact me here.
  • *boggles* *blogs*
  • We have monkeyfilter shares??
  • I found out about blogshares shortly after starting MoFi, through metaphilter.org. So, for the heck of it, I listed MoFi back then. I have to admit, for a virtual sharemarket it's interesting watching the site's "value" grow as the site does.