Cool potential for Orkut or Friendster

Mark Frauenfelder 10:54 pm Thu Jul 15, 2004

Whole Lotta Nothing has sent out a lazyweb request for a blogging plug-in that would allow a blogger's close friends to correct typos in his or her posts. I sure could use something like this.

I want a MT plugin that will let a select group of my closest, most trusted friends correct typos in text and URLs on my blog posts and republish their changes without my intervention. If I'm gone for a couple days and improperly used your when I meant you're, I'd love it if a friend fixed that while I was away. I first got the idea when I was trying to think of ways to make Orkut or Friendster useful. If there was some API to those apps that let MT know if someone was a best friend or life partner-level connection, they could be granted temporary edit rights on my blog (maybe Flickr's API could let this work for people I designate as a friend and family member, which seems to be the closest form of relationship there).

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