Ok, so yesterday I joined BlogShares, a site where one can buy and trade shares of blogs(no, you cannot own any blog but your own), and I have found it quite helpful. I have also noticed the number of scripts that integrate the data from that site to your own blog has increased, but in the 2 weeks or so that the game has been going I still do not see a way to have your current holdings listed on your blog. I see not one but two script for listing your own blog price on the blog itself, one with MT blogs and one that does not have a destined blog tool.
While my blog is not really high priced, only $0.16 right now(up one cent from earlier), I do plan to post almost a dozen entries that I have been lax on, and plan to try my best to avoid a class action suit through the site(yes, I said a class action, I think mock, suit from shareholders to blog owner). I do not know if anyone else has bought my shares(Matty G did, and Chris Baldrey from Drawing the Button, a new found reader of this blog), but it is certainly a fun game. I am looking toward a redesign right now, and when I launch that, I hope my price will go up a fair bit. I will also have the Blog Shares stuff listed on here then. In the meantime, click here to buy my shares, and support my site! Enjoy!
Okay Geek! Seeing my name, on another blog is like, winning the lottery! Okay, not really, but it's still pretty darn special.
I've been working on the "buy low, sell high" theory, and your shares, are at the moment low. I'll hold on to them a while.
No problem, due to the lack of a Reciproll, I have had a hard time finding out who is linking to me, and I was planning on mentioning your blog on mine ever since I first saw you as an incoming link through BlogShares. As for my(blog) being cheap, well, I hope to fix that soon, and then maybe we can both make a little(virtual) coin. Deal?
Sounds good... but tell me... Why are my shares still so cheap (compared to yours)??? What do I need to do, to get a value to them?
I am trying to figure that out, and if it breaks the rules. Near as I can tell, links from other bloggers are what raises your value, say a link from Chris Pirillo raising my blogs value by $x, while a link from me is worth $y. I think the 'outgoing link value' is the key thing. I may just be blowing smoke here, but I will blog when more research is available.
Ok, I looked at my portfolio and I have unfortunately noticed my value going down. The problem, it seems, is my heavy investment in Pirillo's blog, which has dropped off some(hit too late I think) and Blogrolling, though most loses have been the over $2 a share(14 total) from Chris's blog. the manual says that buying and selling are the only things that affect price of the shares, so I sold 1000 of the stocks I hold in DtB in order to allow others to buy, hoping this will allow it to rise.
Unfortunately it s listed as having a P/E of 1, which the manual shows as even, and thus not likely to be adjusted. Hopefully my links to you will add to the value a little, bringing it up a few cents, maybe even hitting a dime. I am constantly trying to remind myself this is beta, and thus is not perfect, though the fact most blogs are a value of under $0.50, there is a very broad disparity, a slew of blogs over $20, and the majority under a buck. hopefully in full launch this will improve, or there can be more factors that effect price than buying and selling. Also, it would be helpful if there were more shares, allowing for a higher investor base, as well as the ability to control your IPO value.
I have also bought some of this geekblog stuff. Hope they raise soon (if the blogshares bot begins to work with my own blog, I will link you, ¿somebody else to link geekblog? Smells like easy money.)
Unfortunately it seems as if only buying and selling control the price, and the more often people buy, the higher the price goes. I own 1100 of my own stock, and 3 others(you included J) own a total of 1110 shares. Unfortunately changing code in how the site works is making the site very unpredictable.
If you want to know, it's called X5. It's super rare.. =) It exsists only in two places, my hard drive and the hard drive of the server. Haha.
Of course if I were paying attention.. I would have known you weren't trying to figure out what blog software I was using, you were stating that the script can be used with almost any blog. =)