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March 27, 2003

Capitalism Good

I saw this BlogShares game over at Christine's this afternoon. It's a neat stock market simulation for blogs. At the time, my blog was worth $1.65, but now it's up over $9, and I'm in 12th place in the Top 100. I'm filthy, stinking rich!!

On the main page, there is this:

Special Note: Please don't post a link on the web to the BlogShares Alpha. Feel free, however, to email your friends. This is just for the alpha version before the site is moved to it's final home in http://www.blogshares.com/. Sorry for any inconvenience and no worries if it should happen (such is the web).

So, I wouldn't be too surprised if a flood of traffic takes the site down. I was going to be nice and not say anything in the blog, but some people already did. And if my friends tell me to jump off a bridge...

Posted by Solonor on March 27, 2003 11:26 PM | Cosmos | Tags | Bloglines

Comments

it's not about doing what we tell you, it's about being bigger blog geeks than we already are. :D tee hee

Posted by: kat at March 27, 2003 11:30 PM

Hee! I just joined.

Posted by: Scott at March 27, 2003 11:56 PM

Ohhhh suuuuuuuuuuuure, bring down the Spork Posse. Guess you'd rat out your friends for a buck, wouldn't ya?

;)

Posted by: GeekGrrl at March 28, 2003 08:38 AM

Why? Ya got a buck? ;p

Posted by: Solonor at March 28, 2003 08:42 AM

i don't get it. but there's me.

*scratches head and ass concurrently*

Posted by: bran at March 28, 2003 12:39 PM

Wait a second. Why is my damn blog so cheap? Do I suck THAT badly?

Jeeze. Why didn't anybody tell me?

Posted by: GeekMan at March 28, 2003 12:53 PM

Damn! You are cheap. I'm going bargain hunting!

Posted by: Solonor at March 28, 2003 12:59 PM

Damned investment bankers. They priced my IPO too low!

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 28, 2003 02:37 PM

Oh crap well I had mine linked a couple of days ago lmao

But hey you've gone up in value!..maybe I should advertise heh

Posted by: Dania at March 28, 2003 04:06 PM

I must hurry up and buy shares SOON!

Poor guy has on the home page not to link to the site. Uh, guess you should have thought about that before you launched it and we found it, HUH??? ;)

Posted by: Christine at March 28, 2003 05:53 PM

HEY! Just a cotton-pickin' minute!! I followed YOU. I'm the lemming here, dammit!!

Posted by: Solonor at March 28, 2003 06:11 PM

Hmm, I can't access the site at the moment . . .

Links are really screwed up on it, though.

Posted by: Scott at March 28, 2003 11:05 PM

I must really suck. $.32 a share? No, no, no, that just means my stock is highly under-valued. Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Les at March 29, 2003 11:36 AM

And Sol, what's up with the lousy 5 shares you bought? Don't you trust that my value will go up?? ;-)

Oh yeah, I can see this game starting a lot of blog-fights. Hee hee!

Posted by: Les at March 29, 2003 11:41 AM

Yeah, I started out trying to play it to make money, but then it looked like I was rating my friends by how many shares I bought. So, I sold off everything (netting a whopping $23) and bought 5 shares of each. Of course, now I'm gonna hear it from the ones I missed... This game might not be so good after all. (Plus, my ranking tanked, and now my stock is officially overpriced, so I can start dissing it now.)

Posted by: Solonor at March 29, 2003 11:48 AM

mine's worth almost a quarter a share. if you're looking for a bargain, redsugar's the way to go.

*sigh* dammit, just because i'm low maintenance doesn't mean i'm cheap...

Posted by: tanya at March 29, 2003 01:33 PM

Jump I say! ;D

Posted by: Kymberlie R. McGuire at March 31, 2003 02:11 AM

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Thank you, comment spammers. Thank you to hell.

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