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Lunker
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This is going to be a little weird, but such is academia:
I'm working with a professor who wants to create a public blog that acts as a sort of communal meeting ground/database for people interested in a topic of his research. Ideally, people could create posts that get tagged with certain labels to fall into subcategories, and then an editor or other back-end person would just be able to log in and change the labels on posts if they're not right, fix spelling, etc.
The catch is that he wants people to be able to create new posts to the blog without having any kind of login. I asked him if he wanted a discussion board, but he likes the format and ease of use of a blog. I'm trying to see if he's okay with people logging in with a guest account, but he would probably prefer to just have a text field that people could type into, add some pictures, and then just click a button to publish it.
I'm not a web developer by any means, but I'm loosely familiar with Blogger so I've been toying around with some layouts and such. Is the above functionality the kind of thing that would be easy to implement? He'd be okay with shelling out some money to set up an actual website and not just a freebie blog service, but it would have to be a setup where anonymous people can publish words and photos directly, and then an editor can go in later to take posts down or move them around.
I'm working with a professor who wants to create a public blog that acts as a sort of communal meeting ground/database for people interested in a topic of his research. Ideally, people could create posts that get tagged with certain labels to fall into subcategories, and then an editor or other back-end person would just be able to log in and change the labels on posts if they're not right, fix spelling, etc.
The catch is that he wants people to be able to create new posts to the blog without having any kind of login. I asked him if he wanted a discussion board, but he likes the format and ease of use of a blog. I'm trying to see if he's okay with people logging in with a guest account, but he would probably prefer to just have a text field that people could type into, add some pictures, and then just click a button to publish it.
I'm not a web developer by any means, but I'm loosely familiar with Blogger so I've been toying around with some layouts and such. Is the above functionality the kind of thing that would be easy to implement? He'd be okay with shelling out some money to set up an actual website and not just a freebie blog service, but it would have to be a setup where anonymous people can publish words and photos directly, and then an editor can go in later to take posts down or move them around.
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What about the possibility of using an almost universally available login component, like facebook linking?
Spam would be a pretty big issue, I would think.