{"id":971,"date":"2010-02-18T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:44:23","slug":"adding-comments-to-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/adding-comments-to-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding comments to my blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/iMatt-The-Blog-of-Matt-Clare-\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00ba-Log-In.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-975\" title=\"iMatt -- The Blog of Matt Clare \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00ba Log In\" src=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/iMatt-The-Blog-of-Matt-Clare-\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00ba-Log-In-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Unless you&#8217;re reading this posting via Facebook, you may have noticed that you now have to sign in to add comments to my blog postings.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to resist as long as possible, but the signal to noise ratio was getting too high for me whenever I had to approve comments.<\/p>\n<p>I could have add a CAPTCHA, which is a contrived acronym for &#8220;<strong>C<\/strong>ompletely  <strong>A<\/strong>utomated <strong>P<\/strong>ublic <strong>T<\/strong>uring test to tell <strong>C<\/strong>omputers  and <strong>H<\/strong>umans <strong>A<\/strong>part.&#8221; But I find their squiggles to be fundamentally inaccessible, even the audio or reCAPTCHA ones, and I didn&#8217;t want to further promote the technology.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 My <a href=\"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/british-government-issues-apology-to-alan-turing\/\">admiration for Alan Turing<\/a> aside.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m now asking commentators to sign in via <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/connect.php\">Facebook Connect<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\/what\/\">OpenID<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Both technologies never disclose your password to my site, and warn you about what they are disclosing and in this case it&#8217;s not much more than your name\/handle.<\/p>\n<p>You may not know it, but you may already have an <a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\/what\/\">OpenID<\/a>! Google, Flickr, MySpace, WordPress and others all provide the service to their users.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that comments are no longer being closed after 90 days.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to comment on all the postings going back to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your time and patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;re reading this posting via Facebook, you may have noticed that you now have to sign in to add comments to my blog postings. I tried to resist as long as possible, but the signal to noise ratio was getting too high for me whenever I had to approve comments. I could have add&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/18\/adding-comments-to-my-blog\/\">Continue Reading<span> Adding comments to my blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,38,37,18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}