I think our approach to gathering links could be two pronged. People who are very interested in this carnival (or hosting) and who want to collect links on a regular basis can work through Diigo, as was discussed in the email exchange yesterday.
But if I were new to Berry Go Round or just wanted to submit a link every once in awhile, I wouldn't necessarily want to join Diigo to submit a link. Being able to email the host gets around that, but I think a submission form works better.
I was thinking we could revamp the main BGR website (http://berrygoround.wordpress.com/) and include a submission form there? And maybe a host volunteer form, too?
There are definitely options for building forms into a wordpress blog that are easy to implement and have decent spam protection (http://www.codestuff.com/2009/07/16/153/wordpress-contact-form-7-plugin-great-for-forms.html). Of course, the BGR blog is a wordpress.com blog and I'm not as familiar with the options and flexibility of that as I am with self-hosted wordpress blogs - perhaps it isn't actually possible. Anyone know?
But if I were new to Berry Go Round or just wanted to submit a link every once in awhile, I wouldn't necessarily want to join Diigo to submit a link. Being able to email the host gets around that, but I think a submission form works better.
I was thinking we could revamp the main BGR website (http://berrygoround.wordpress.com/) and include a submission form there? And maybe a host volunteer form, too?
There are definitely options for building forms into a wordpress blog that are easy to implement and have decent spam protection (http://www.codestuff.com/2009/07/16/153/wordpress-contact-form-7-plugin-great-for-forms.html). Of course, the BGR blog is a wordpress.com blog and I'm not as familiar with the options and flexibility of that as I am with self-hosted wordpress blogs - perhaps it isn't actually possible. Anyone know?