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Sewer Grate
January 2005 Raleigh, NC
Cross-posted to colorandpattern
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In a blatantly narcissistic move yesterday I googled myself to see where my name was appearing. There were the usual suspects, a few oddities and even a few genuine surprises. (I'm quoted in a blog comment about self-editing in blog writing in a scholarly paper, for instance)

The biggest surprise was that the other blog, the one that has never had a comment to a posting, was listed on blogshares. I had assumed no one ever read it and anything I posted there was just for my own benefit, a blog of political comment and bookmarks.

I'm not sure how it got in there, either.

So, what's blogshares? To quote from the site's homepage:

"BlogShares is a fantasy stock market where weblogs are the companies. Players invest fictional dollars on shares in blogs.
Blogs are valued by their incoming links and add value to other blogs by linking to them. Prices can go up or down based on trading and the underlying value of the blog."

Now, I'm not into playing the stock market, but this idea of fantasy value to a blog seemed strange to me. The fact that the political side blog somehow made it in their game was even stranger.

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