You can have first dibs on that domain as I see its not registered yet.

-Rebecca Romijn is my favorite mutant from X-Men.

Articles on Audio would be… PODCASTS.

:-)

What if you also offered writers the option to flag articles as *exclusive*, i.e. only *one publisher* will get the right to use them.

The listing on ezinearticles could consist of just the title, abstract, and maybe one or two paragraphs, plus the author’s bio.

Publishers could then *bid* (yes, money) on the articles and ezinearticles could take a commission on the end sale (licensing) price.

This would give you a ‘first class’ class of articles whose quality (or perception thereof) is not diluted by being published on free-for-all, garbage directory/adsense sites.

Radical!

:-)

For instance;

EzineTalk
EzineImages
EzineArt
EzineBooks

Separate sites but linked together and maybe not even linked from EzineArticle to them. But from them to EzineArticles Flagship website.

I have done a lot of this in our companies.

Carwashguys.com
Truckwashguy.com
BusWashGuys.com
DetailGuys.com
AircraftWashguys.com
Etc, etc.

We had to add niches to service our customer demands, without taking away from our hard fought brand name.

People who are creative and write articles are apt to be artists too, muscians, photographers, Consultants (audio). So you have 30,000 people and 10% of them each are also one of the others, thus you have built in content providers ready to rip. Making audio is a great idea, and yes you must be concerned not to dilute your brand, but also realize that synergy is free in that you have here already 3000 artists, 3000 photographers, 3000 Speakers-Consultants, 3000 muscians, 3000 eBook Authors and you could be inspiring boatloads more already here and gain quick synergy and become a fast mover in all the other niches due to your baseline content contributions. I have many thoughts on this and have actually written a few articles on this subject here on the Art Concept or photograph like Flickers.com and the Audio ideas are good, if you have the space and can impliment a “Sister Site”. Personally I could very easily put together 50-100 audio speeches within a month to add to a new site if you produced one. Also you might consider a link on a few categories here for links to audio site, starting with only a few categories; Self Help, Motivation, Health, Business, Arts and Music? The links could be at the bottom of the page; See Audio Directory on this subject. Not enough to canibalize traffic, just enough to get it going you see. The smaller starting sites would show big links to this site to show you are the “Real Deal” not a Johnny Come Lately.

Good thoughts really. Innovate or die as they say. And you are wise to be careful and think on it too, although once you decide don’t hesitate, GO FOR IT, if you decide to do it. Consider this in 2006. I wouldn’t mind someone commenting on my comments if they agree or disagree on this topic.

This would benefit readers AND authors by showcasing what EA considers to be “good” article writing and give a key to other authors so they can start to include certain elements of these quality articles in their own. :)

Yes, we’ve often contemplated that model and I believe we’ll even be testing it sometime in the next year.

Lance,

Every time we start to stretch into a different direction, we keep getting pulled back to focus on the core model that this site is run on. …only so many hours in a day, but I’m sure we’ll have our fingers into more mutant media areas soon enough. :-)