Mark Bernstein is conducting a weblog experiment with a life simulator he's building:
In the simulated world, we have 600 little artificial writers (I call them weblets) with 600 artificial weblogs. If traffic is the currency of the Web, each of the weblets wants to get rich. Some have big blogrolls (so lots of people will think well of them). Some have lots of daily links (so they can reward their friends quickly). Some hoard traffic, some spread it around. We'll see who wins.
Knowing Mark, he'll almost certainly publish the research results—resisting the temptation to share the most effective strategy with just a few pals or to use the findings to give a boost to anyone who builds their blog with Tinderbox. [via Jonathon Delacour]