For those of you looking to watch one of the newest and hottest blogging thingamabobs, check out Blogshares.com. It's basically a stock market for blogs and prices are gauged based on incoming and outgoing links -- be sure to check out the online Manual put together by the sites owner: Seyed Razavi.
And now you're wondering what I did with all the money and shares given to me by default (you get 1000 shares in your own blog once you claim it, but an additional $500 if you register it). Well, truth be told, in my excitement at being listed I bought an additional 800 shares -- all at about $0.01/share -- a bargain! -- of my own stock. I thought about buying the MovableType stock too, but it is quite overrated (P/E 5+), so I did what any other geek would do and bought 22 shares (at $20.30/share) of Slashdot. No, I didn't even bother to look at the P/E -- it was over 7.3 and it crashed on me, all the way down to $2.72/share. So I did the only thing a man in my shoes would do, buy more at that price. You can now go and brag about knowing me back when I was "dirt poor" and "still making bad decisions."
On a quick note, check out the Top Players and their valuations. I'm familiar with maybe a dozen of those blogs, but I completely forgot about Jason DeFillippo's blog (he did a spot on Call for Help before). It appears he's also the fellow that started up Blogrolling (something I still haven't figured out, even though I have it linked). Dave showed me Jason's site a month ago after a meeting with all the big movers & shakers of blogdom in San Francisco (sans me).
Oh, and another site on the Top Users that I had come across before was Gnome-Girl. I actually thought the gal at the top (the babe) was the gal that ran the site, but Jason clarified that with these pictures.
Posted by Tim at April 3, 2003 08:07 PM | TrackBackno the babe would be Liz Phair :)