Media Mammon, a play stock market of memes
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004This is a fun idea:
Media Mammon is a meme-based stock market. You can create accounts for free and buy or sell shares of search terms that rise or fall in popularity based upon how much the search term appears.
Myself, I just listed “Media Mammon” for $25 play dollars and then bought 215 shares.
Talk about unethical journalism. Heh.
It doesn’t use typekey to authorize accounts, so it would be pretty easy to just flood the market with a ton of automatically created user accounts.
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