One day I was doing a search on one of my blogs. There were several hits, but one stuck out. It was a listing for my blog on the Blogshares Market. It took me awhile to figure out what the heck was going on.
Turns out Blogshares is an online game based on the stock market (well, somewhat anyhow) and blogs are the shares, or stocks. The more blogs that have linked to a blog (referred to as incoming links), the higher the value of that particular blog. There are ways to manipulate the value of a blog. Players buy and sell. They use artefacts to hype, buzz, slump, or cause a public relations disaster.
You start out with a fictional $500. It is possible to play for free, which is how I began. These players, referred to as non-premium, don’t have access to the full set of tools and features and are limited in how many transactions they can use per day.
I didn’t last long as a non-premium. Pretty soon I’d shelled out the $15 for a year of premium, unlimited play. I had no idea what I was doing. I read the help (which is very confusing) and stumbled through the game.
Now I’m a trillionaire. I’m also obsessed, but more on that later…
