Mar

28

How much are you worth?

Filed Under Musings 

Internet websites seem to be fabulously expensive with Facebook recently valued at well over a billion dollars, and Microsoft bidding tens of billions for Yahoo. So have you ever wondered just how much your site is worth? Well, this website suggests my blog is worth $564.54. A Not So Different Place which I think is a pretty good blog, by contrast, isn’t worth anything. It doesn’t seem fair, does it?

Apparently the price is based on my rating at Technorati where we find that there are two blogs that link to mine, and 34 that link to A Not So Different Place. It still doesn’t make sense.

The only clear difference between our blogs is that I have my own domain (befuddled.info) while A No So Different Place has a subdomain of Blogger (anotsodifferentplace.blogspot.com). This, apparently, makes my blog marketable, and A NotSo Different Place unsellable.

Of course, my blog is written by one person. Without me, there is no blog. So can you really sell Befuddled for  $564.54? No, because without me, whatever worth my blog may have disappears. My blog is my ideas, my quirky reactions, and, in a nutshell, what I think.

Internet website pricing just doesn’t make sense.

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