{"id":501,"date":"2006-04-05T23:22:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T07:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/blogs-as-stocks\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T23:22:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T07:22:38","slug":"blogs-as-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/blogs-as-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs as Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/blogshares.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blog Stock Market<\/a> the other day which uses a set of metrics to vaulate websites\/blogs as if they were corporations with real market shares&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogshares.com\/blogs.php?blog=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiredatom.com%2Fblog\" target=\"_blank\">WiredAtom<\/a> fared &#8220;ok&#8221; considering it has about 0.00001 % of the market share (yoohoo!). And apparently, my &#8220;blogshare&#8221; is available for trading.<\/p>\n<p>Care to buy some blogshares of WiredAtom? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blogshare.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"395\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"WiredAtom blogshare\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another pretty crazy site (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iid8.com\" target=\"_blank\">Carl<\/a>) of the week was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexaholic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Alexaholic<\/a>. It (somehow) compares traffic of any 2 given (or 5) sites by showing you a series of graphics and charts. It turns out that my humble little dinky site fares pretty well to my former employer&#8217;s corporate site! Dang&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/alexaholic.png\" width=\"420\" height=\"214\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Alexaholic traffic comparison\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon Blog Stock Market the other day which uses a set of metrics to vaulate websites\/blogs as if they were corporations with real market shares&#8230; WiredAtom fared &#8220;ok&#8221; considering it has about 0.00001 % of the market share (yoohoo!). And apparently, my &#8220;blogshare&#8221; is available for trading. Care to buy some blogshares of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/blogs-as-stocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogs as Stocks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}