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Sean

I was just watching the video on Damien’s blog there on this post, and it got me thinking, about the Ultimate News Blog..

This is the video if you care to watch:

Really what I was thinking was having a pretty much open blog, where anyone can post news, obviously you’d set up some way of testing the authors out on their first or second post or something, but this isn’t really where I’m going with this. A blog with a couple of hundred writers, then you have advertising, sponsors.. The money made would then get split through all the authors and the ones with the most popular posts or the post/posts that got the most traffic would get the most money. So lets just say one post from Author Mark brings in 200 uniques, another post from Author Dan brings in 40 uniques, finally Author Sam only gets 2 uniques on his post. From sponsorship you make lets say, €350 for that month. €50 goes to you, towards hosting and what not. Then the €300 would be dived amongst Mark, Dan & Sam. Using simple ratios, Mark with 200 uniques gathered would make €248, Dan would make €49.60 and Sam would make €2.40. The brilliance behind a system like this would be that more and more bloggers would join up, the more bloggers the more news, the more visitors. The more visitors the more sponsorship! Then when you have too many bloggers you could fire the ones that aren’t producing good enough posts. I honestly don’t see why a system like this hasn’t been done yet! Personally I think its genius!