Now go sleep.

#1. You’re right on this one. I get frontpage and category pages, but we all know the action is on individual pages. Not saying that clicks don’t happen on other pages. Hmmm, sounds like I need to setup some channels and report this in the case study.

#2. Other advertising will eventually come into play sooner or later and at those times it will be discussed with the writers beforehand how the shares go. This will involve some kind of split once I figure out technically how to get what I want done.

#3. So basically everyone benefits right? :)

#4. All authors have links pointing back to their site on their article pages and homepage if their article appears there so they get to share in the referral traffic as well. The stated goal wasn’t to push traffic back to 9rules, but to 9rules’ members (small difference I know, but significant in my mind).

#5. Simply more incentive for them to stay :) I think 90 days is extremely fair when I could just leave it at 0 days.

#6. Now to be honest I haven’t even considered this one. The selling of CSS Vault and Forever Geek came at a time where money was tight (much better grasp of my finances now) and many of the members who put in their fair share of work got a cut of the action. Just another thing to worry about down the road if the time ever comes.

Maybe this thing will work out and maybe it won’t, but if it doesn’t then I guess we don’t have a book to write together now do we ;) I call it foolish simply because of my attitude towards the project and how I am approaching it.

Hope I covered the points decently, it’s 3:15am here and it’s almost time for my nap.

As an aside I also get to experience the dynamic of writing with others. I think that will be a very interesting part of Scriv’s experiment; how the teams shape up. Already we are discussing amongst ourselves how not to step on each others toes, how to handle dissenting viewpoints in a focused site and so on.

I’m thinking differently about blogs with multiple authors. I’m thinking about a blog right now that will have up to 5 bloggers.

It should be a good experiment, to see if all the posts that up to 5 people can write, along with multiple viewpoints will be more popular than single author ones.

Works good in thew mechanical world. Multiple engine planes are far, far better than single engine ones.

Works good in the hotel industry. Hotels with multiple rooms pull better than hotel’s with one room.

Looks good in the blogger world, as I see a blog from 37Signals has 14,199 readers in their feed and I don’t.

We’ll see how it goes.

Invitations are soon to be sent, probably this weekend. Stay tuned.

On the serious side:

I think there is merrit to the way Scrivs is going about this – however I personally wouldn’t probably go in this direction to the extreme that he has. I’ve been toying with something similar for a while now but my hesitations are around quality of posts but also revenue share and sustainability. I probably wouldn’t go for 100% for publishers – I think there is something to be said for taking a cut and providing publishers with more of a service.

I also would hesitate to move my blogs to having more than one or two bloggers on them – my blogs have a system to them and if too many started blogging on them I can see some logistical problems. While I’m not anti group blogs – I’d much rather one person oversee a blog who has their finger on the pulse of everything that goes on in it.

That’s just my personal preference though – there is, as I’ve outlined in the above post, some things that are worth considering here.

Wow ! I saw his post but never even began to dissect it like you did.

Darren, you are way too good to just be a blogger. Are you a super-hero by night and a blogger by day ?

Ever get the urge to leap over tall blogs in a single post ?

Do you get the urge to change clothes in a phonebooth ?

Do the have those in Austrailia ?