Really just F-ing (effing?) WEIRD...
Ok, so I finally get around to googling the term "vueaskew" just to see what there is to see. No big surprise when only five resulting links come up. However, one that's listed doesn't look familiar, at "blogshares.com":
http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://vueaskew.blogspot.com%2F
It looks like a stock ticker entry, but my blog is the commodity in question. Upon closer inspection, it appears as though my blog's valuation is 1000 blog dollars, divided by a total outstanding share count of 5000, for a per-share price of 20 blog cents.
A quick link to their homepage reveals that "BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by incoming links." Hrm.
What's amazing here is that there's an automated tracking system in place to keep tabs on all these blogs...and this is all happening automatically...how bizarre is that? Naturally, my interest is piqued, as it's all fascinating, so I look up some of the blogs of those I know, and it's pretty interesting the way this works.
D's blog ($3,150 high, currently $1,000) and Practicing Hedonists ($1,122) both have/had higher valuations than I do, [partly] because I link (or linked) to their sites, but Rosie and Capricious Acumen aren't even represented. The Superficial ($126.233), Rollertrain ($33,048), News of the Weird (Daily) ($2,855), Hedonistica ($1,409), and even AllThingsChristie ($1,356, a link I'll be adding to the sidebar soon...funny stuff) are MUCH higher, due primarily to the nature of those sites and the fact that they're a lot more established, and thus have link traffic both in and out.
It appears that my blog was added to the index on January 05, 2005, at 18:21, and D's was added 40 miutes later, a 19:01, though she started hers months before I did. Practicing Hedonists was added sometime in February, a couple weeks after he started it in January.
Hrm, more research is called for, and I've registered as a user on that site. This could be very interesting, and I feel a whole new level of time sinkholeness coming on...
Incidentally, to check any blog's value, or if it's in the system at all, just follow this link:
http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://vueaskew.blogspot.com%2F
then replace the vueaskew.blogspot.com in the nav bar to any blog address you want. Post interesting finds in the comments, if you so desire...I can seriously totally see myself wasting all kinds of time on this...
Ooh, it's Friday the thirteenth [insert lame Jason Voorhees reference]...
http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://vueaskew.blogspot.com%2F
It looks like a stock ticker entry, but my blog is the commodity in question. Upon closer inspection, it appears as though my blog's valuation is 1000 blog dollars, divided by a total outstanding share count of 5000, for a per-share price of 20 blog cents.
A quick link to their homepage reveals that "BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by incoming links." Hrm.
What's amazing here is that there's an automated tracking system in place to keep tabs on all these blogs...and this is all happening automatically...how bizarre is that? Naturally, my interest is piqued, as it's all fascinating, so I look up some of the blogs of those I know, and it's pretty interesting the way this works.
D's blog ($3,150 high, currently $1,000) and Practicing Hedonists ($1,122) both have/had higher valuations than I do, [partly] because I link (or linked) to their sites, but Rosie and Capricious Acumen aren't even represented. The Superficial ($126.233), Rollertrain ($33,048), News of the Weird (Daily) ($2,855), Hedonistica ($1,409), and even AllThingsChristie ($1,356, a link I'll be adding to the sidebar soon...funny stuff) are MUCH higher, due primarily to the nature of those sites and the fact that they're a lot more established, and thus have link traffic both in and out.
It appears that my blog was added to the index on January 05, 2005, at 18:21, and D's was added 40 miutes later, a 19:01, though she started hers months before I did. Practicing Hedonists was added sometime in February, a couple weeks after he started it in January.
Hrm, more research is called for, and I've registered as a user on that site. This could be very interesting, and I feel a whole new level of time sinkholeness coming on...
Incidentally, to check any blog's value, or if it's in the system at all, just follow this link:
http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://vueaskew.blogspot.com%2F
then replace the vueaskew.blogspot.com in the nav bar to any blog address you want. Post interesting finds in the comments, if you so desire...I can seriously totally see myself wasting all kinds of time on this...
Ooh, it's Friday the thirteenth [insert lame Jason Voorhees reference]...
posted by Gene at 3:25 AM
1 Comments:
rosie: i'm offended that i'm not worth anything...boohoo
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