How To Make Blogging Even More Compelling?
Combine it with fantasy stock market trading so that each blog becomes its own company that can be traded (regardless of whether the blog owner wants it or not) on a fantasy site called BlogShares.

Right now, NorCal Bikers is trading at just under $41 a share. Intellectual Poison is doing decently well at just over $60 a share. And there are the big fellas like Plain Layne trading at $270 right now. Strangely they had not indexed Rambling Rhodes yet though I will be buying shares as soon as they are available, same thing for Gudy Two Shoes. As well as picking up shares in all of my other regular reads. Intellectual Properties is currently undervalued at $42.86 a share so I'm scooping up a bunch there. Jivha is in the process of being indexed. I also just put in an order to pick up a hundred shares of Stiletto Philosophy.

I'll hold off on buying and shares of the Fabulous Mint 400 until they're server issues have been solved and the blog loads up all the way or returns something aside from a Page Not Found error.

Its a cool system and has definitely taken quite a huge amount of time to put together. Its free too so that makes it that much better.
And, while they start you off with $500 to get going, it makes far more sense to claim your own blog and get rolling that way. I claimed NorCal Bikers and got 1000 shares of the blog to play around with. Changed half of that in and gained $20K in working capital to reinvest.

Can you tell I'm having fun with the whole thing? Yeah!
So now I'm on a mission to increase the number of in bound links to Intellectual Poison and to NorCal Bikers (the only two they've indexed of mine so far).

And there are real business concepts coming out of the whole thing, places like Blog Cooperative that offers up a new way to create and run a business. I need to do a bit more research on it to really understand it but it is well worth a look and might just get you out from behind that desk. Might might be a stretch but hey, any chance is better than no chance at all, isn't it?
The Blog Coop is a new venture and needs to get rolling by getting eyes and minds on the subjects at hand. Surf over and take a look to see if it works with your blog universe.

Another New Word Sighting
To be added to the New Words page when I get a moment to do so.

Phonytail - people with weaves or otherwise not their own hair mixed in with their own are sporting phonytails.