There's always a market for (blog) vanity

According to this, my blog is now worth $14,973.02. That would make it the single most expensive commodity I have ever owned. If I could actually go public, I might sell. Seriously: that would pay off most of my student loans!

You can see how your own blog's stock is doing if it's listed--and many of your sites are--or play the market yourself at the BlogShares main page.

I don't even pretend to understand how this site works, and it's got to be an impressively complicated operation to administer. It looks like an intriguing and potentially absorbing game, but I think BlogShares also might go beyond entertainment value to offer some implicit commentary on the value of blogs, not only in the sense of their potential commercial value, but also as vehicles for connecting people, experiences, and ideas.