I set up my blog on Blogshares a few months ago, and didn't do anything with it. Turns out that someone has bought all the available shares (4000) in my blog except the 1000 shares I got for startup.

My blog value has gone up a lot recently: up to $ 51.32/share!

While there -- and I still don't know how to buy anything with the measley $500 I have -- I came across a reference to something potentially more interesting than the fictional blog stock market. The same folks behind blogshares are also touting BlogCoop, which looks to be a swarmocracy-based business model for the composition of cooperative businesses online.

I will be digging into what is going there, soon.