The way I understand it, if you want to leave an identified comment that links back to your own blog or profile, it's not necessary to have a Google account - you should be able to use any OpenID, including your Wordpress or Typepad ID, for your folks who blog on one of those platforms. Just sign in with that ID when you comment:
The drop-down menu for Sign-in will give you your options. The "nickname" option will let you leave a name, but no link, with your comment. (You could be anonymous if you want to, but I hope you won't.)
Thanks to Working Girl (a non-Googler) for asking the question that gave me a heads-up about the change, and to the very useful Google Operating System for the scoop.
(And speaking of changes in commenting procedures, have you noticed the recent option to be e-mailed with follow-up comments? It can save you time checking back for responses, but it could also send you a lot more e-mail, since it sends you all subsequent comments, not just those from the blog author. That could keep your Inbox very busy when you're on of the early "good cooperations" - this post has 51 so far - on a Bub and Pie post. The option works on a per-post basis, though, so you can pick and choose which posts you want to follow. Literary Feline says she's taken a liking to it.)
There is an unsubscribe feature if you get tired of receiving e-mail responses to the blogger posts you are following. :-) I always forget it's there.
ReplyDeleteLiterary Feline - I've used that unsubscribe feature when it got to be too much. If they're going to let you in, they have to give you an exit strategy too. :-)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your success at NaBloPoMo. Thanks for the info about the new comments stuff on Blogger - I noticed a difference but didn't know what it was all about.
ReplyDeleteI too ended up blogging more than 30 times but not 50! That is truly impressive!
Those rat-bastards... always trying to screw things up. We'll see if this works and YAY FOR NABLO!
ReplyDeleteMauigirl - Congratulations to you on NaBloPoMo as well! I think it was all worth it.
ReplyDeleteAnd it seems that there's another project out there involving daily blogging/writing during December, but I think I'll pass up another month of this. (Thanks to Alisonwonderland for the heads-up, though!)
Madame Meow - Yes, yay for NaBloPoMo - and thanks to you for being the one who prompted me to do that crazy thing in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAnd what do you know, it looks like this thing does work - you're the first non-Blogger-profile commenter to try it, and the link goes right to your TypePad profile! Wow, progress!