Good stuff. I like it when people talk.

From BJ:

Perhaps Wright should be holding out for more. BlogShares shows his blog trading at $224.10 a share (although listed as overpriced). Total valuation for the blog? $115,243.02 (fake money, of course). Is it overpriced? Perhaps. Maybe the fact that Jeremy Wright sold off 138,113 of his own shares for his own blog on September 15, the day before the announcement that the bidding for his blog was closed, could be a sign. But if this becomes the first blog to be sold for real money, I’m sure it will get a lot of publicity for it… which, of course, will drive up the price of those (not real) shares.

I wish Ensight was worth the current BlogShares market cap of roughly 3M$ ;-)

From Jon:

Right on! It’s the blogging brass ring. I’ve been thinking lately of ways to make money doing this whole blogging/”nanopublishing” thing, and in addition to this highly apropos example, I’ve been poking around the Weblogs, Inc. sites to get a feel for what they’re doing and how.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about Weblogs, Inc. a bit as well. Not for Ensight. For other stuff. More on that later.

From Peter:

For $4300. I knew he was a fairly popular blogger and his blog is a very sharp site with some decent traffic. But, who’s buying blogs?

It was a touch more than 4300$ Peter. It’s okay though. Who’s buying blogs? Forward thinkers who see the value. That’s who :)

From SocialTwister:

Peter Caputa notes that one of his active site visitors, Jeremy Wright, has come close to finalizing the sale of his blog for upwards of $4,000. Jeremy apparently made the offer on his site and people have taken the offer seriously. On the other hand, Stowe Boyd also recently cited the eBay auction of the BlogOnTheWeb.com blog community numbering in the thousands for a mere $2,425.00.

Sites make money based on a lot of things. For Ensight it was me, the traffic (I have more than BOTW), the income (I have more than BOTW) and the value proposition of blogs. They grow. Fast. Continuously. Ensight’s enjoyed a roughly 20-30% monthly growth rate for the last year and a half. Think about that. Traffic doubling every 4 months. Crazy.

From NI3:

This is an interesting idea. I don’t know if I could/would do if an offer were ever made. Jeremy, who runs Ensight.org, has received an offer and it looks like he is going to accept it. Buying blogs would be a fast way to build a media company.

Mmm, agreed. The first 24 hours was tough. It made sense once I got the right offer though. Ultimately you need to decide if selling your blog is something you are even willing to do, irrespective of the price.