Sportsbook BetUS.com has started taking bets on which blog will top Technorati’s Top 100 on New Years Eve this year.
It’s a shameless self promotion really but it’s is a novel way of making money blogging so I thought I’d link up.
I doubt anyone will beat Xu Jing Lei at the top (although if Robert Scoble changes announced he was going to work at Boing Boing there could be a challenge) but here are the odds that they are offering (sadly there is no ProBlogger in the list :-) – I think we’d be at least +10,000 despite our current 58th place).
Get full details at BetUS at Put Your Money Where Your Blog Is
About Darren Rowse
My name is Darren Rowse and I’m a full time Blogger making a living from blogs like 
it seems funny that blogging than has become something akin to sport! I recently got into the ‘game’ and was really suprised at the audiance that the blog quickly picked up. Now I sound like a total geek when I speak about the blogs Ive read last night. I always get the same responce “Why the hell would anyone go to a blog?” Haha cant wait to tell them about this.
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I dislike any kind of betting. However, I am happy that blogging is becoming an industry. this transformation is taking very fast.
These predictions suffer from the fatal flaw of most prognostications: extrapolating the future by gazing in the rearview mirror.
By the end of this year, the blog roll will be topped by a new generation of blogs that have leapfrogged the old guard by improving on the basic structure and experience of the blog. Change is perpetual, and it is lazy to assume a static pyramid.
I make bold to predict my blog will be one such new leader. As the man said, Make it so.
http://www.amusis.com
People bet on that stuff? Wow, blogging truly has gone mainstream!
This is great, and they leave Xu Jing Lei’s blog out of the competition. I have been reading from Xu Jing Lei, she is an authority in her field: Film Making. If you searched about her, she is really popular, no wonder she can be TOP.
Blogging has really done a major make over in many industries. This is just awesome!
Daniel
http://www.blogcharm.com/mymoneynote/
pretty sure they leave Xu Juin Lei out because there is little chance of her not being on top – they’d lose money on that bet every time.