DOW JONES LOOK OUT! BlogShares.com is making virtual millionaires overnight and awarding real money.

BlogShares Tournament of Champions begins Grand Finals in October. Finalists will compete head to head using their trading skills in order to win real US cash. Contest sponsored by America's BlogTV.com. No purchase necessary.

LONDON, ENGLAND, (PRWEB) September 25, 2003 -- Dow Jones look out! Only on one of the fastest growing new Web sites today will you find the rising trend of blogging being actively traded by savvy Internet investors worldwide.

The Web site is BlogShares.com and it is a fantasy stock market where sites ranging from Presidential Candidate Howard Dean's blog for America, the Bare Naked Ladies blog (a popular Rock Star Band), and former Star Trek TV star, Wil Wheaton's blog, can be publicly traded for fantasy dollars making virtual millionaires overnight in some cases.

There is no charge to join BlogShares.com and start investing in these and other blogs. Ownership of a blog is not necessary in order to participate.

Each player starts with five hundred dollars in fantasy money and grows their portfolio and wealth by investing in blogs.

Blogging is the ability for anyone with Internet access to publish thoughts, ideas, and share information online without having to know how to program or design a Web page. This self-published work is known on the Internet as a blog, which is short for weblog.

Similar to keeping a journal or diary, blogging is taking such self-expression to the digital age by simplifying the process. Entries are blogged online as easy as typing an email and clicking send. All entries are automatically formatted and chronologically archived for both author and reader. These entries commonly contain links to other blogs.

BlogShares.com provides real-time data as to which blogs are the most linked to blogs by people on the Internet today. This linking phenomenon determines the fantasy stock price of a particular blog at any given time and also represents some of the most read and popular blogs.

One such example is politician Gary Hart's blog being publicly traded around $1800 (Blog Dollars) per share on any given day and valued almost at forty thousand dollars with over one hundred incoming links.

There are over one hundred thirty thousand publicly traded blog sites listed on BlogShares.com with more being indexed daily. The BlogShares community has approximately five thousand active players with close to one thousand of these players trading blog stocks on a daily basis and often several times a day.

One of the regular players, Irma Vermaat of Belgium admits, "When I signed up for BlogShares I never thought the game would be that addictive. It's not only the trading that's fun, but what interests me most is the community."

Ms. Vermaat and other players actively use the BlogShares online forum and chat rooms to meet and help one another by sharing their personal experiences and game strategy advice.

The game's creator and founder of BlogShares.com, Seyed Razavi, consistently contributes enhancements and new elements to the game each month from his home in London, England.

"Hostile takeovers and other cut-throat game play have debuted making the game even more entertaining for the BlogShares community," says Razavi.

Another event occurring now for BlogShares.com is an element of sport and competition in order for players to compete and have an opportunity to win real money by way of a tournament.

BlogShares.com has enlisted the help of US based BlogTV.com, a fantasy television network where anyone can start their own channel by creating a personalized blog, as the sponsor for the new BlogShares Tournament. This event will allow players to compete against one another and have an opportunity to win real cash and other prizes all summer long.

July's first prize winner of fifty US Dollars, Louis Martin of Springfield Missouri says, "I just wanted to see if I had what it takes to win. It looks like I did."

The top three players with the largest percentage growth in their BlogShares portfolio for each summer month from July through September will compete head to head in October for a grand prize of five hundred US dollars.

There is no purchase necessary to participate in the contest and it is void where prohibited by law. BlogTV.com, the official sponsor of the tournament, is offering free blogging software pre-installed on all BlogTV.com hosting accounts. The BlogTV service offers a money back guarantee for subscriptions which begin at approximately ten dollars per month for a single user.

Additional information can be found online at http://www.blogshares.com and also at http://www.blogtv.com.
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CONTACT:
Seyed Razavi
BlogShares.com
London, England
+44 20 8 749 0366
seyed@monkeyx.com
http://www.blogshares.com

Austin Chase
BlogTV.com
Nashville, TN
(877)276-0761
media@blogtv.com
http://www.blogtv.com