Comments on: wordpress microID plugin

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:30:53 +0000

What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)? Thanks.

By: will

will — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:51:26 +0000

yes, I’m familiar with some of the other URL-based identity systems. I just referred to OpenID since I’m most familiar with it and (from my limited view) it seems to be garnering the most attention. Perhaps “Yadis-capable” then? :)

By: Terrell Russell

Terrell Russell — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:37:08 +0000

OpenID is definitely not the only (or first) URL-based identity scheme. LID was around earlier and continues to serve as a valid URL-based identifier.

That said - we are moving quickly into an interesting space as more and more comments/pages/content will be verifiably by certain authors and our online reputations become more and more tied to our real-life reputations.

By: will

will — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:01:52 +0000

The biggest problem I see with joined openID and microID at this point is the person identifier used -- openID uses a URL while microID uses an email address. I think the most logical thing would be to modify the microID spec to optionally accept a URL as the identity token instead of an email address.

The whole idea of URL as an identifier seems to be unique to openID, but I think it is a very natural one. I would love to see other things use it as well (such as gravatar.com). This quickly becomes very cyclic -- in order to use URL as an identifier, it must be verified. In order to verify ownership of the URL one could either fully implement openID and be done with it, or continue using email address internally and then use microID to verify ownership of the URL.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:47:20 +0000

You’re absolutely right on a number of points. If the communication identifier - the email - isn’t verified, the generated MicroID is just another piece of cruft. Verify the email and things get interesting (granted - maybe more trouble than anyone wants to go to on a comment - but if you can comment with OpenID, you’re absolutely right - things got a lot more interesting).

As to the end of your second points, right now the verifier’s are very rudimentary. I believe as this matures, verifiers will interpret the DOM and be able to tell exactly what content on a page is “claimed” by a certain MicroID. That gets pretty exciting.

I really keep thinking back to the very logical tie-ins between openID commenting and MicroID…very very powerful stuff!

Great post.