So many accounts, so little use for them all.

A major downside of the proliferation of major blog sites (Windows Live Spaces, livejournal, blogger, blogspot, wordpress.com, etc etc) is that many of them require you to be logged in to comment. This creates the problem of needing to keep so many accounts that are only to comment, and while blogger is the notable exception, I'll never use them for anything else. Gods, the 'net needs more people to support OpenID (and a functional openid server for wordpress would be handy too).

I very much like the Wordpress way... you don't need to be logged-in to comment, and when you aren' t logged in, you aren't magically an Anonymous Coward. That way, you can at least maintain some sort of identity across comments: how likely are you, after all, to forget your email address and URL. In turn, *that* is the reasoning behind OpenID and why it's such a captivating technology. The only trouble is: 'how many people are out there who have openid accounts? And would it benefit this blog to at the least install one of the openid-login supporting plugins for wordpress?