Using MyOpenID With Blogger
December 14th, 2007 at 10:33 pm by azwan. Filed under Blogging, Tools.… and still able to link back to your own hosted blog.
Usually, when visiting my friends blog hosted at blogger, I don’t sign in as ‘merapuman’ but I clicked on ‘other’. By doing that, Blogger allows you to key in your name/nickname and your URL. I was happy with that ….. until earlier this month where Blogger made some changes and I am not allowed to leave the link to my site anymore. You can still put your nickname but not your site’s address.
It looked like Blogger (or Google) was forcing everyone to get a Google Account. I was furious when I found out about this. Some Bloggers felt the same way. First, there was the slap by Google on posties and now this. Who doesn’t.
Anyway, Google apologized to me 
yesterday.
We apologize for removing the URL field from the comments form prematurely two weeks ago. That was a mistake on our part that came from launching OpenID support on Blogger in draft.
Read the rest here.
Although, they allow you to sign in using your WordPress.com, LiveJournal, AOL Journals or with your AOL/AIM accounts, you still need to make some adjustment if you want to leave a link to your own hosted domain.
Here’s what you need to do :
- Get a MyOpenId account. Mine is http://azwanhadzree.myopenid.com/
- Then, modify your blog header. Go to the <head> section of your blog and ad this :
<link rel=”openid.server” href=”http://www.myopenid.com/server” />
<link rel=”openid.delegate” href=”http://azwanhadzree.myopenid.com/” />
More details here.
Now you can start commenting (again) at blogger and leave your mark.
Tags: OpenID, MyOpenID, Blogger, Commenting
Great! Now I can leave my link again. Usually I just leave a nickname there and the author knows me.
azwan reply on December 14th, 2007 11:47 pm:
no problem if the authors know you but if they don’t, it will be difficult to tell them where u r from. leaving url in comments will look like spamming
banyaknyer ilmu dia…kerana menyahut seruan berkongsi ilmu…
Bagus!!
Google apologized and mended their ways? amazing!
Just as an aside, what does merapunam mean? In Hindi it would mean ‘my’ (mera) ‘full moon’ (punam or poonam)
adila reply on December 16th, 2007 10:10 am:
i think merapuman is-some one who sign in as nama yang merapu la kot…
hm…ada meaning in Hindi tuuu….
azwan reply on December 17th, 2007 11:03 pm:
ha..ha.. lebih kurang je lah. check out my about page for a link to my blogger blog
azwan reply on December 17th, 2007 10:59 pm:
They apologized to everybody and blogger buzz
it’s made up from 2 words, merapu man (man as in superman, spiderman) while merapu is a malay word for ‘talking nonsense’, funny, a person who is never serious enough etc ..
shutterspeaks reply on December 19th, 2007 12:35 am:
yo my full moon, wazappp….
huhu…ni untuk komen 16/12
aku di tag lagi…
hehe…
pandai en azwan ni, lepas dia tag, dia off kan komen tu…
tq bebanyak…nak cuba gak nih…
azwan reply on December 17th, 2007 11:06 pm:
Tak sengaja ter-off
blogger is unlike any other google platform which promote simplicity… blogger is way too complicate by google standard. nak komen punyala susah…. apabala ghaplah betoii…
azwan reply on December 19th, 2007 8:51 am:
if u r not a blogger, memang le complicated … but much simpler than having your own (for the owner of course) … for the visitors .. leceh!
betui la … susah pulak aku nak komen .. baru tadi ja perasan. huhuhu. maleh dah aku nak komen kat blogger ….
azwan reply on December 19th, 2007 8:58 am:
tapi, ramai kawan masih disana. so, nak kata malasa nak komen tak boleh gak … masih boleh komen, tapi yang lecehnya nak meninggalkan jejak. but if you just do what i did as above, it is a 1 time job.
Great info! Thanks