For the past couple of years i’ve been indulging in this small guilty pleasure called Blogging.  Its not much of a surprise when you are in public and hear someone mention there own blog.  But when was the last time you heard someone say there blog was worth THOUSANDS?  Now i’m not talking about greenbacks or any physcial currency.  I am talking about the digital currency of B$.  Its the online currency of Blogshares, an online virtual stockmarket where you trade BLOGS instead of Corporations.

They basically start you out with $500 in B$ to build and grow your portfolio.  If you have a blog, you can even claim it and buy your own “company”.  Myself, my blog listing is only worth a B$1 or 2 but that does not stop me from buying and selling other peoples blogs.  Also, it shows that my blog is declining.  I dont know how but I think it can be attributed to the fact that i’ve changed blog software so much that it has the wrong RSS feed URL in my profile.  I dont see any way of changing that myself so I’ll have to open up a ticket.  After a couple of years of on and off play, my current portfolio is valued at B$792,205.81.  It would be even cooler if I could take $500 US and turn it into $792k US. 

If you like fantasy stock market games, I warn you not to play this as you can easily lose several hours of your life in just one evening.  Researching Blogs and getting sidetracked to reading them is definately a good way to lose those hours you are suppose to be walking the dog or doing the laundry. 

They offer a premium service as well but I would advise against it just starting out.  If you start getting into the game and start issuing lots of trades per day, the premium membership is definately worth it.  Actually, it looks like my premium membership expired just last month.  Do I need it?  No.  When I really get into the game though, it comes in handy.  Very handy.  You can easily do “day trading” and make a killing, which you will need the Premium for.

If you are extremely bored with the outside world, they even have IRC chatrooms where I coined one of my favorite “puns/jokes” years ago. Go have fun. 

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