Lately I’ve been making a lot of noise at home about moving my blog off of LiveJournal. My big beef is that people who read this blog who are not members of LJ have a hard time leaving comments. On other blog sites, I can comment any time I want to and leave my name and URL so the writer knows who I am. On LJ, I have to leave my blog open to completely anonymous comments, which either results in jackasses leaving stuff that they know is untraceable, or people I know having to sign their post at the bottom in a lame-o fashion that makes them seem like internet amateurs. Blech.
On the other hand, I love that I’ve been able to make new friends and discover many new blogs via friends-of-friends. I like my friends page and I check it compulsively. And I also like the fact that I can make friends-only posts, although I don’t do that very often.
So I’m torn.
I just found out that LJ now supports OpenID. When commenting, people who have blogs on other sites can now enter their URL, and somehow it automatically will label their comment with their identity. Yay! I notice that Blogger is supporting it too.
Anyone out there with a non-LJ URL want to try it out on this post?
TurtleHead 
I’ll give it a try…
Apparently, if you get all of your friends to “friend” your openID, you will be able to log into livejournal using that, and see protected entries.
Doesn’t help with being able to make private entries, but is still neat.
Awesome! I managed to add your URL as a “friend” so now you can see any protected entries I make just by using your OpenID.