4 Tech Blogs that are OpenID FAIL (and 1 that isn’t)

After last week’s post about taking a stand for OpenID, Kelly Guimont suggested a list of offenders; that is, tech blogs that don’t walk the OpenID walk. Here are four big tech blogs that fail, as well as one that’s doing things right:

• TechCrunch – no OpenID support. I sent a note to @TechCrunch on Twitter and didn’t receive a response.
• Web Worker Daily – no OpenID support. I asked a question (appropriately enough in a post about OpenID) and received this answer:
  

  Aaron, thanks for the suggestion. WWD is hosted by WordPress.com so we don’t the same flexibility when it comes to installing plug-ins meant for self-hosted blogs.

  It’s a valid response from a technical standpoint, but I have to wonder if a site that’s all about forward-looking web productivity should be tied to an architecture they can’t extend to support developing standards.

• Read/Write Web – These guys get partial credit. They have OpenID support, but it fails if your provider uses a secure (SSL) connection (such as Vidoop). I have had a dialog with Richard, and they are looking into it via the folks at SixApart since they’re running Movable Type. My last contact with them was a month ago, and it still appears not to be working.
• Mashable – I asked about OpenID support and Pete responded on Twitter with:
  

  it’s on the todo list. but, the todo list is very long

Enough of the big tech blogs that fail… who’s doing it right? Last week I sent Scott Hanselman a note about OpenID support on his blog, knowing that he was one of the contributors to DasBlog, an open source .NET blog platform. Yesterday he announced OpenID support, and he featured the OpenID work as his Weekly Source Code post for this week.

Kudos to Scott. It’s a shame that the big blogs who write about new technologie seem slow to embrace them.

* this post was originally posted yesterday, then lost last night as part of a blog explosion

[tags]openid, techcrunch, webworkerdaily, readwriteweb, mashable, scotthanselman, dasblog[/tags]