Stop me before I get addicted to Blogshares.

But what are the ramifications of all this? People playing the game might start begging for links (more than usual, I mean). Or buying stock in a weblog and then linking to it from their weblog.

If you have a weblog, you could buy stock in this weblog, for instance, and then link to me. 'Course this would only raise the stock value if your weblog is more popular than mine (that's almost certain, isn't it?).