Blogging Blog Shares, A Weekly Update

The latest and greatest from Blog Shares...

Recently I ran a special edition of A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blogosphere based on my portfolio. Since then my holdings have bulged; I own a whole lot more stock as well. 8-D

I have stock in over 500 blogs now! I've started to organize them into folders that are loosely categorized. In the next week or two I'll post a portfolio update. That will provide the opportunity to go through the list to see what I want to hold on to and which ones I'll cut loose for a profit. {Which may make my holdings bulge even more.}

There have been some interesting developments in the game since the performance report I wrote about two weeks ago.

One of the things I wrote about at that time was karma; something you know I feel is essential in achieving any harmony in life.

When it comes to karma in Blog Shares, I needed to call on one of the more experienced players for an explanation. Here's the scoop:

Karma is a community ranking system based solely on a player's level and accuracy of voting and moderating. Players gain karma by first placing correct votes on blogs, then having a moderator accept the vote (this can take only minutes or several days to occur). Each accepted vote (or moderated vote) gains a player +1 karma in addition to Chips. Rejected votes will award -1 karma.

I know, there are multiple bloggable subjects in that description. For the moment I just wanted to provide some color. My karma score has gone from -24 to +17!!

Instant karma's gonna get you... - John Lennon

My net worth has grown this month over 246%; yet I'm still ranked 543rd in the game. Moving up's a challenge, but the potential of having it happen makes the game more interesting.

A variable in this equation is that Blog Shares is running a campaign at the moment where posting about the game earns you chips. Which means this update serves me in a number of ways. Tic, Tac and Toe!!!

As I said, my portfolio is grown {And again, my holdings are bulging} from 419 to 587 blogs. The value of the portfolio has grown exponentially from B$254,108,498.61 to B$354,717,564.73.

In terms of cashish, I hold B$3,897,246,996.99; that's only up about B$2.5 million. My corporate investment, though, is huge. More than double in fact up to B$67,430,811,969.80!

Things unfortunately didn't work out with A Strategic Alliance Corporation; that was a real disappointment. Still rolling along with Robber Barons; I've also joined B$ Bears and BlogShares Airlines.

When you join a corporation you create a motto. Mine are Opportunities Knock; Know When To Answer with Robber Barons; Orbiting On The Spacestation with BlogShares Airlines; and my favorite Let's have Stephen Colbert for lunch 8-) with B$ Bears.

One more thing before I close out today, you can get graphs to illustrate your performance in various areas of the game. {It's a free service.} You get the first one just a few days after you sign up. That gives some time to collect performance data; otherwise it would be nothing but a straight line.

Check these out, based on performance since January 25th:

Net Worth


Karma