I recommend against using your Blogger blog URL as your openid. It only does OpenID 1.x but OpenID 2.0 has been around for a while. With some extra work you can 'upgrade' your blog URL to openid 2.0, but Google stops managing it at that point.<div>
<br></div><div>The easiest way to get an OpenID that works well, in my experience, is to stop by <a href="http://www.myopenid.com">www.myopenid.com</a> and get one there.</div><div>--<br>Andrew Arnott<br>"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Robert Shaver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@shaverassociates.net">rob@shaverassociates.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div>I've tried and tried and tried to use OpenID. I've failed every time upto now. Why? Because I can't figure out how to get one or use the one I already have.</div>
<div> </div><div>I have a blog on Blogger. The OpenID help page says that I can use it as an OpenID. Specifically it says on this page <a href="http://openid.net/get/" target="_blank">http://openid.net/get/</a> to use "<strong>blogname</strong>.<a href="http://blogspot.com" target="_blank">blogspot.com</a>". But what does this really mean?</div>
<div> </div><div>I know I'm supposed to use some string in place of "blogname", but what string? Is it my Goggle account ID? Tried that ... fails. Is it the title of my blog? I think not because it has spaces in it. Is it the URL to my blog? My blog subdomain is "newmedia101" so I tried "<a href="http://newmedia101.blogspot.com" target="_blank">newmedia101.blogspot.com</a>" and "<a href="http://newmedia101.blogger.com" target="_blank">newmedia101.blogger.com</a>", but those didn't work.</div>
<div> </div><div>Then I found the OpenID tab in my blogger dashboard. It said that my OpenID is <table><tbody><tr><th><strong></strong></th> <td><a href="http://newmedia101.austincsl.org/" target="_blank">http://newmedia101.austincsl.org/</a> but that failed. Then I tried "<a href="http://newmedia101.austincsl.org/" target="_blank">newmedia101.austincsl.org/</a>" and that worked. Wow. Finally success after months of trying.</td>
</tr></tbody></table></div><div> </div><div>(And, yes, I knew the URL from the beginning but thought I had to follow the directions. I tried the above string but it didn't work the first time. I must have had a typo, so I thought I'd eliminated that as aposibility.)</div>
<div> </div><div>So now how to we get the documentation fixed?</div><div> </div><div>In an effort to make OpenID look simple, I think the documentation has been dumbed down too far. At least for Blogger, why can't is say, "Check the OpenID tab in your Blogger dashboard."</div>
<div> </div><div>Well this have been a good exercise for me. I always check my facts when writing these kinds of messages and that forced me to look deeper into the issues and, thus, solving it for myself. I thought about not sending this at all but perhaps it might be useful to someone.</div>
<div> </div><div>Peace,<br><br>Rob:-]<br><br>Shaver Associates<br><a href="mailto:mailto:Rob@ShaverAssociates.net" target="_blank">mailto:Rob@ShaverAssociates.net</a><br><a href="http://shaverassociates.net/" target="_blank">http://ShaverAssociates.net</a><br>
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