I spent nearly two hours trying to get the OpenID I supposedly have via my Technorati account to allow me to post a comment on a BlogSpot (aka Blogger) blog, and I just couldn’t get it to work.  I looked around the web and it seems the word on the street is that OpenID is a work-in-progress that is very much in its infancy.  You see, I personally don’t want an OpenID from a place like wordpress.com or livejournal.com or Yahoo! or even Technorati because I don’t want to always signify my web presence as something that is attached to any one service to have stewardship over it.  I don’t want my ID to be something like matthewstringer dot wordpress dot com, for example!  I just want to be Matthew Stringer.  I understand the process of “delegation“, but the trouble of setting that up seems less than worth it, not to mention the inherent disingenuousness of the concept.  And it seems much of the web is still not on board with OpenID, not to mention the security issues which are, have been, and will continue to pose problems with it.  I know Facebook just latched on, but they’ve got walled garden problems that I think will become an issue down the road.

I love the concept of one-click sign-up and sign-in, but it’s not going to happen for some time.  The closest thing we have to something like it in the real world is government issued photo ID.  Maybe we can get some government intervention and make something interesting like that on-line?  Bah, it’s all hogwash!  For now, I want nothing to do with OpenID.  Gravatar, on the other hand, is pretty great because it has a much more defined focus and purpose – establishing one identity for the purpose of commenting on blogs everywhere.  I like that much better.  Now, someone tell Blogger to get on the Gravatar bandwagon!

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