From the sublime site of yesterday, let's get down, right down.
Today's Dead Blog of the Day is a scatological submission from intrepid player, Louie14 entitled
The Dump Report. Now anally retained on the Blogfarm, Betty recommends this site to those seeking scatological enlightenment via arcane reading of toilet bowl contents.
Of course down on the farm, we leave our bodily offerings out in the paddock.
Congratulations Louie14, your 200 chips have been sent through the system, or is that cistern?
Whilst on the topic of dead blogs, player jtsage has established a useful tutorial on Dead Blog Hunting, highlighting how lucrative it can be.
Friday, February 29, 2008
New maths
Share your thoughts about the impact of BlogShares' new maths in the BlogShares forum.
Should the Blogfarm, a subsidiary mostly owned by an existing player be permitted to shamelessly interlink with other players' blogs in order to boost and stabilise other sectors of the market than those already massively revalued? Betty thinks so, as far as share play goes.
Do Betty's links skew the index? Probably. Is that Betty's problem? Betty doesn't think so. For discussion of that issue go here.
Should the Blogfarm, a subsidiary mostly owned by an existing player be permitted to shamelessly interlink with other players' blogs in order to boost and stabilise other sectors of the market than those already massively revalued? Betty thinks so, as far as share play goes.
Do Betty's links skew the index? Probably. Is that Betty's problem? Betty doesn't think so. For discussion of that issue go here.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Poetry collection preserved
Today's Dead Blog of the Day is submitted by long time BlogShares afficionado, M. Major. Congratulations, you have won yourself 200 chips for your outstanding submission, A Colostomy Bag Full of Poems.
Betty wonders whether you have any further information about the author of these ribald verses and whether we can expect more incredible additions at some stage in the future.
To give our readers a taste of the literary quality of the author, J.B., here's a short snippet from one poem which particularly caught Betty's eye as she glanced through this significant body of work, which ranges from satirical cowboy barnyard frolics (how appropriate for the Blogfarm!)to paeans about peers, neocons and other conmen whom the poet pokes mercilessly to thoughtful historical insights.
From "A Paltry Sum":
"And whenst the reaper cometh
to collect his deathly toll
the millionaire could just as well die
faced in Corn Flakes bowl
Yon Microsoft inventors
cometh nearer to their fates
each day that passeth quickly
is one less for even Gates."
We hope the Blogfarm can assist J.B. back to his calling, that he may be appreciated by those who seek contemporary verse rather than merely the below from "Bless You".
"Bless you Mr. Visitor Tracker.
Without you I would never
know how many people
search MSN and Google
for Colostomy and Colostomy Bag
and "Colostomy Bag fell off"
and all these other crazy searches
that make life worth living.
Bless you Mrs. Visitor Tracker."
Betty wonders whether you have any further information about the author of these ribald verses and whether we can expect more incredible additions at some stage in the future.
To give our readers a taste of the literary quality of the author, J.B., here's a short snippet from one poem which particularly caught Betty's eye as she glanced through this significant body of work, which ranges from satirical cowboy barnyard frolics (how appropriate for the Blogfarm!)to paeans about peers, neocons and other conmen whom the poet pokes mercilessly to thoughtful historical insights.
From "A Paltry Sum":
"And whenst the reaper cometh
to collect his deathly toll
the millionaire could just as well die
faced in Corn Flakes bowl
Yon Microsoft inventors
cometh nearer to their fates
each day that passeth quickly
is one less for even Gates."
We hope the Blogfarm can assist J.B. back to his calling, that he may be appreciated by those who seek contemporary verse rather than merely the below from "Bless You".
"Bless you Mr. Visitor Tracker.
Without you I would never
know how many people
search MSN and Google
for Colostomy and Colostomy Bag
and "Colostomy Bag fell off"
and all these other crazy searches
that make life worth living.
Bless you Mrs. Visitor Tracker."
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
What's your favourite, quality dead blog?
For BlogShares participants, Betty is running a Dead Blog of the Day Mission to post for posterity the best dead blogs of all time. 200 chips to each winner, with 10 winners chosen. If the mission proves popular, it will be repeated.
Editorial discretion will be applied.
Good luck to all!
Editorial discretion will be applied.
Good luck to all!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Dead Blog of the Day
Express Train, a photoblog which has fallen from the BlogShares index since it hasn't been updated in the last six months, contains some of the best photos on the web I have encountered.
Commuters between Brooklyn and Manhattan are captured with sympathy for humanity and the urban environment in which they travel.
If anyone else has a dead blog they would like to highlight, please let me know.
Commuters between Brooklyn and Manhattan are captured with sympathy for humanity and the urban environment in which they travel.
If anyone else has a dead blog they would like to highlight, please let me know.
Reindexing incoming links
Tempting, isn't it? One press of the key, and 20 blogs are reindexed at once. If you have run out of your allotted indexing for the day, it will cost you 20 chips. And is reindexing incoming really the optimum way to add value to your precious blog?
Here's an alternative method which I've found adds more value. Start at the bottom of the incoming links to the blog. As you go, report dead blogs, earning chips and sigma, and merge duplicate blogs. At the bottom of the list are often hiding valuable blogs which haven't been indexed for ages. And those bottom blogs quite often link to blogs further up the list. As you index up the list, the blogs further up gain value.
If you had reindexed the top blogs first, you would have missed the value added from the hidden treasures at the bottom!
Here's an alternative method which I've found adds more value. Start at the bottom of the incoming links to the blog. As you go, report dead blogs, earning chips and sigma, and merge duplicate blogs. At the bottom of the list are often hiding valuable blogs which haven't been indexed for ages. And those bottom blogs quite often link to blogs further up the list. As you index up the list, the blogs further up gain value.
If you had reindexed the top blogs first, you would have missed the value added from the hidden treasures at the bottom!
Your blog in BlogShares
Perhaps you have just begun publishing your new blog, gingerly exposing your thoughts to an unseen audience and would like to have the possibility of gaining new live readers rather than merely relying on search engine bots to find and categorise your blog automatically from its RSS feed.
BlogShares is played by real humans, many of whom enjoy reading and collecting interesting blogs - especially those with unique content, clever writing, twists or of significance in a specialised area. Some blogs are so immensely popular in the game for their content, even regardless of their value, they have been the objects of intense battles for control of their shares. Apart from content, you can improve your blog's attractiveness to the people in the game by obtaining links from existing popular sites. It will also help your credibility with the major search engines if your links are related to your subject matter.
Once your blog is added to BlogShares, it can be voted into different industries based on its specific demographic factors and substantial or significant content. You will see then where in each relevant industry your blog is positioned, and which other blogs are related to yours which you might like to read and/or interact with.
Your blog can also gain strategic and financial value (that's BlogShares $ not real ones) to you if you join the game and claim the blog as your own. You may wish to retain all its shares, or gift some to friends in the game. Every six hours you can cycle your shares, selling them then buying them back through artefact use and pocketing the difference.
BlogShares is played by real humans, many of whom enjoy reading and collecting interesting blogs - especially those with unique content, clever writing, twists or of significance in a specialised area. Some blogs are so immensely popular in the game for their content, even regardless of their value, they have been the objects of intense battles for control of their shares. Apart from content, you can improve your blog's attractiveness to the people in the game by obtaining links from existing popular sites. It will also help your credibility with the major search engines if your links are related to your subject matter.
Once your blog is added to BlogShares, it can be voted into different industries based on its specific demographic factors and substantial or significant content. You will see then where in each relevant industry your blog is positioned, and which other blogs are related to yours which you might like to read and/or interact with.
Your blog can also gain strategic and financial value (that's BlogShares $ not real ones) to you if you join the game and claim the blog as your own. You may wish to retain all its shares, or gift some to friends in the game. Every six hours you can cycle your shares, selling them then buying them back through artefact use and pocketing the difference.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Farmyard Politics
Pecking orders are endemic in farmyards. In BlogShares, some players have amassed huge wealth and/or have been playing for years, with a considerable time and effort invested in acquiring every artefact and ideas from every industry to reach the loftier echelons of the composite rankings.
BlogShares is an organic game, always evolving, with more blogs, artefacts and industries continually being added as pursuit targets. Thus it is devastatingly addictive - one never quite reaches the end.
There are other ways to enjoy the game too - these include inventing new artefact descriptions, finding new blogs and rare industries, player missions, social networking via irc, twitter and player blogs, engaging in corporate share raids and other strategic play, and most of all, enjoying and sharing with other bloggers and blog afficionados the most comprehensive and up to date collection of contemporary writing, photos and other paraphenalia on the planet.
BlogShares is an organic game, always evolving, with more blogs, artefacts and industries continually being added as pursuit targets. Thus it is devastatingly addictive - one never quite reaches the end.
There are other ways to enjoy the game too - these include inventing new artefact descriptions, finding new blogs and rare industries, player missions, social networking via irc, twitter and player blogs, engaging in corporate share raids and other strategic play, and most of all, enjoying and sharing with other bloggers and blog afficionados the most comprehensive and up to date collection of contemporary writing, photos and other paraphenalia on the planet.
Ideas and industry farming
Alternatively, you may only want a small value on your blog, so it will produce less ideas from the blogs in the industry of your choice as you increase their value, or to limit the number of ideas produced by a rare industry.
To assist you in farming up your industry so the stacks of ideas you have collected become worth astronomical amounts, it may help to weed the industry first, reporting dead blogs from which you will earn sigma points and valuable chips, and to revote blogs which may produce dangerous amounts of ideas.
To assist you in farming up your industry so the stacks of ideas you have collected become worth astronomical amounts, it may help to weed the industry first, reporting dead blogs from which you will earn sigma points and valuable chips, and to revote blogs which may produce dangerous amounts of ideas.
Crop Circles
Another concept for enhancing blog values in the game is ensuring that as many folks as possible link to your blog, adding a proportion of their blog value to yours. You can then choose to reciprocate and return some of the value, or concentrate it on specific target blogs to increase their value.
Growing your blogs' value
Since the new math, shares in BlogShares are a very profitable way to increase your B$ wealth.
Cycling a mere B$200m blog can produce B$80b - B$100b profit. But you don't want your newly found or won blog to slip in value as it will decrease the amount you receive from cycling, and reduce the value passed on to your blog's outlinks, some of which you may also hold.
Therefore you should tend your blogs wisely, and weed their incoming and outgoing links to concentrate and build value.
By weeding, I mean checking whether each incoming and outgoing blog is alive, looking behind those links for other links of value and reindexing from the inside out, which will add value as you go. If you start your gardening and reindexing at the bottom of the list of incoming links you may well also find some very attractively price blogs which you can acquire along the way.
Additionally your weeding will clean and benefit the Blogshares index.
After the process is completed you will have a clearer picture of the future potential of your shares in your blog. You can increase value further by visiting Google and searching for more blogs which link into your blog to add to the game. eg link: http://blogfarming.blogspot.com/ in the google search bar.
Cycling a mere B$200m blog can produce B$80b - B$100b profit. But you don't want your newly found or won blog to slip in value as it will decrease the amount you receive from cycling, and reduce the value passed on to your blog's outlinks, some of which you may also hold.
Therefore you should tend your blogs wisely, and weed their incoming and outgoing links to concentrate and build value.
By weeding, I mean checking whether each incoming and outgoing blog is alive, looking behind those links for other links of value and reindexing from the inside out, which will add value as you go. If you start your gardening and reindexing at the bottom of the list of incoming links you may well also find some very attractively price blogs which you can acquire along the way.
Additionally your weeding will clean and benefit the Blogshares index.
After the process is completed you will have a clearer picture of the future potential of your shares in your blog. You can increase value further by visiting Google and searching for more blogs which link into your blog to add to the game. eg link: http://blogfarming.blogspot.com/ in the google search bar.
Blogfarming for B$ fun
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And here we go folks, farming the wondrous rare ideas of the multitudinous BlogShares industries. There are hundreds of thousands of B$ idea varieties, and part of the aim of the game is to collect at least one of all of them. New industries are being created daily.
BlogShares is a fascinating strategic game of skill and intrigue, and people can join as non-premium members for free for an initial taste or pay a very reasonable US$15 for premium membership which allows access to many extended and growing features.
BlogShares is a fascinating strategic game of skill and intrigue, and people can join as non-premium members for free for an initial taste or pay a very reasonable US$15 for premium membership which allows access to many extended and growing features.
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