You surely already know BlogShares, the “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.”

I’ve received an email from BlogShares for two days saying that my account balance was credited from … B$184’667.85 because of the merge of “Didier Beck\’s Weblog” in “Didier Beck’s Weblog”. I don’t really understand but anyway, I decided to play a little bit with my new cash.

I did the following:
– buy 4’000 shares of my own blog
– buy 2’500 shares of the blog of Laurent
– buy 500 shares of the blog of Le Danois
– buy 4’000 shares (!!!) of the blog of Loic Le Meur (English)
– buy of 350 shares of the blog of Loic Le Meur (French)
– buy 125 shares of the blog of Rodrigo Sepulveda
– buy 350 shares of the blog of Jeff Clavier
– buy 4’000 shares (!!!) of the blog of Marc Goldberg

I found particularly funny to be able to buy the complete shares of Loic and Marc (4’000 for each blog) for about nothing (Loic => B$2.57 per share, Marc => B$.98 per share).

Good portfolio? Let’s see :-)
Investment: B$176’787
Current portfolio valuation: B$709’980