Besides featuring really cool stories about 15-year-olds impressing NASA, the BBC online is the first non-geek website I’ve seen that allows any Joe Schmoe to post a comment without registering, and puts the comments on the same page as the story.

That’s something we talked about as an essential function of eventsATstanford, but one that has not been tackled yet because of the political/legal ramifications (I believe). The BBC simply includes a disclaimer: “The BBC may edit your comments and cannot guarantee that all e-mails will be published.” Can we do that too?

I believe this to be the “killer functionality” that will give eventsATstanford its next level of appeal. How can we make this happen?

p.s. Note also at the bottom of each page the additional functions they provide: “E-mail services | Desktop ticker | News on mobiles/PDAs | Headlines for your site”. It’s all possible…