Facibus On Blogging

I saw the following widget over at Matt’s Musings just now:

It is a fantastically catchy idea: deep down, even if you don’t run adverts or sell t-shirts or any of the other monetization things, don’t you wonder what your blog is worth?

I was curious, so followed the link to Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog. It uses some research by Tristan Louis to change technorati ranking data into a $$figure - what research, and which ranking data, it doesn’t say (and if anyone knows, please tell me).

So if Matt’s Musings is worth USD9,032,24, what is my burgeoning blog empire worth? According to Dane’s calculator:

• Facibus Reviews is worth USD7,903.56
• This blog (Facibus On Blogging) is worth USD564.54
• Facibus OnWii is worth precisely nothing. That is OK, it’s only been going for about 5 hours now

And Steve Collins’ acidlabs blog is worth a whopping USD86,939.16. Cool

I’ll recheck periodically and report back here. A mashup of this calculator with current top 100 technorati blogs would make for an interesting page - regardless of whether the math is right behind it or not, it is entertaining.

UPDATE: Effective 20 May 2007, this blog is now worth a nominal $28,791.54