Initially I thought PTS would survive and be a good group to target airdrops, but now it looks like its done. I got into Bitshares as I saw PTS announcement on Bitcointalk, and mined quite a few in the first few days, traded them (sold some at 0.04 BTC at Cryptsy - probably the highest ever rate) and went on from there.
Agree with donkeypong that this areas have become stale. I think what can be done is to get like minded people, fork Bitshares and create Me as it was in the original plan, sharedrop on a few candidates (PTS, AGS, NXT, NEM ...), raise funds through an AGS style 'donation' and carry on from there.
With BM now focused on only one job, it feels wrong to waste all the other potential projects that could be done with the toolkit.