BlogShares

I'm not sure if any of you have noticed the little BlogShares banner near the bottom of the sidebar. Back in August, I noticed that Scott and Joe had signed up, so I looked into it, was mildly curious, and decided to sign up. It's a fantasy blog share market, where incoming links make your blog shares more valuable, and the more valuable the shares of the incoming links, the more valuable your blog becomes. I think that's how it works, anyway.

After signing up, I'd never been contacted by the folks at BlogShares until yesterday, when I received two e-mails from them. The first was welcome news:

Your 1000 shares in How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog <http://modernemily.blogspot.com/> were sold at B$19.98 ea. for a total of B$19,976.20. This brings your account balance to B$20,476.20 but the transaction will NOT be in your transaction history.
This was done because it was merged into How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog <http://modernemily.blogspot.com>.

Nice. They're reorganizing, and I turn a profit.
But then I got another e-mail from them:

Your 1000 shares in How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog <http://modernemily.blogspot.com> were sold at B$.20 ea. for a total of B$200.00. This brings your account balance to B$20,676.20 but the transaction will NOT be in your transaction history.
This was done because it was merged into How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog <http://modernemily.blogspot.com/>.

So, wait... they're merging A into B, and B into A, and autosold all of my shares in each?

I didn't understand it, but when I visited my BlogShares page, I noticed that a new blog had linked to mine: JAPAN BRATS-Gaijin Blogs. I have no idea who they are or what they want from me, but I don't mind the free press.

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