News from Blogger about our Comments Section

We just received some cool news from BLOGGER about changes to our comments function. This is fun news for our readers who are livejournalists, and/or have their own .com's and want to share them here...

After just two short weeks of testing on Blogger in draft, OpenID commenting is now available for all Blogger blogs. This means that your friends and readers can leave authenticated comments on your blog using their blog URLs from OpenID-enabled services such as WordPress.com, LiveJournal, and AOL Journals, or with their AOL/AIM accounts.


We've chosen a few popular OpenID providers to highlight on the comments form, but OpenID is, well, "open"! You can use any OpenID service to post a comment by choosing "Any OpenID" and filling in your OpenID URL.

Let us know if you have any issues using this. We are not yet sure if this new service will actually ping your non-blogger ID to keep you in a comments chain. ETA: Note that if you do not use a Blogger ID to comment, you CANNOT get emails for the comments-chain on the post.