Blogshares is an online game in which people trade imaginary shares in real blogs.
Each blog in the Blogshares market has 5000 shares. 1000 of those are reserved for the owner of the blog. When you join up with Blogshares you are given 500 shares to start off with. You can buy shares and sell them, over time increasing your profile.
The value of shares is calculated by the ratio between incoming links and outgoing links. The higher the ratio the more valuable a blog is.
Currently my blogs are valued as follows:
- Driving with Purpose $4.62 a share
- Duncan’s TV Adland $219.22 a share
- Educating Christians $0.72 a share
- GodPost $16.26 a share
- Gospel Notes $1.16 a share
- Pacific Highlander $156.52 a share
- PostKiwi’s Generational Posts $127.84 a share
The key in growing your share profile is to invest in blogs before they get too well known. Once people start adding a blog to their blogroll, the value climbs up. In the graph here you can see where a few people added this blog to their list. And then I added a dozen links to other blogs here – which pushed the share value down! To those who invested heavily here, sorry! Just be patient and one day the ratio will even out.
The value today of the shares in the blogs listed in my blogroll to the right:
- A Considerable Speck $28.02
- Beyond Flatland $0.24
- Circle of Pneuma (not listed)
- Emergent Kiwi $2,288.64
- Eclectic Itchings $0.45
- Emergesque $113.14
- Fernando’s Desk $2.47
- Gink World $229.66
- Jordon Cooper $12,617.02
- Liquid Thinking (not yet available to trade)
- Living Room $1213.90
- Maggi Dawn $1,681.63
- Mountain Masala (not yet available to trade)
- Neurotribe $1.68
- Charlie Wear’s Notes at Next Wave $300
- Planet Telex $27.78
- Robby Mac $1.12
- Scotwise $286.39
- Tabletalk $0.47
- Tall Skinny Kiwi $902.99
- The Ooze $3,104.20
- Too Old to Blog $0.36
- Urban Onramps $7.27