So...thought I'd channel my latest obsession into the worthy endeavor of thoughtful blogging. On BlogShares.com it's the combined value of incoming links that gives a blog its value. I came across a blog called Receptacle, which didn't have any incoming links so it was languishing in the market.

Looked to me that this guy had put some thought and effort into his blog but no one seems to know about him. Kinda like a starving artist in real life. I'm not suggesting that his blog is a piece of art, just that this, like many, could be a peacock dancing in the jungle that the "market" hasn't noticed yet. Markets may be somewhat "democratic" but the values that they ascribe to entities cannot be counted on to reliably provide an individual with superior or even optimal choices for his needs or wants. Besides, popularity and majority opinions are not particularly sharp sniffers of gems of substantial intrinsic value that might be invisible to most.

Oh, I know, it's a conundrum. That pesky, argumentative voice in my head is throwing a barrage of questions at me already so I wouldn't dare to be definitive but I do want to dig for those gems and I'd like to get the market in on that as well...call it my way of manipulating it if you'd like.

--aslam

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